| Five-Fingered Morning Glory |
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| File size | 277546 |
| Original date | 12/19/09 12:32 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Distimake quinquefolius Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Ipomoea quinquefolia, Convolvulus quinquefolia, Merremia quinquefolia
Synonyms: Ipomoea quinquefolia, Convolvulus quinquefolia, Merremia quinquefolia
Five-Fingered Morning Glory is a herbaceous prostrate or climbing vine.
The common name comes from the leaves, which are palmately compound with 5
leaflets. Leaflets are oblong to lanceshaped, 2.5-6 cm long. Leafstalk is
2-5 (rarely up to 9) cm long. Flowers are borne in leaf axils, either
singly or in several-flowered clusters. The stalk carrying the cluster is
glandular in the upper part and sometimes mixed with spreading bristly
hairs. Sepals are 4-8 mm long, narrowly ovate to oblong, blunt, nearly
equal or the outer ones shorter. Flowers are pale yellow or whitish,
1.8-2.5 cm long, funnel-shaped. Fruit is about 9 mm long, capsular, round,
4-valved; seeds, about 4.5 mm long, blackish. Five-Fingered Morning Glory
is native to the American continents, occasionally planted as a garden
plant in India.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed at Jawahar, Thane, Maharashtra. |
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