| Forest Wild Pear |
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| File size | 721409 |
| Original date | 6/26/18 3:46 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 3.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/33s |
| Aperture | 2.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Apple |
| Camera model | iPad Air 2 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Dombeya tiliacea Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Dombeya natalensis, Dombeya gracilis
Synonyms: Dombeya natalensis, Dombeya gracilis
Forest Wild Pear is a hardy, deciduous, small tree or
multi-stemmed shrub, 3 to 4 m, with dark, heart-shaped, thinly textured
leaves and dark fissured bark. Leaves are broadly ovate, star-shaped
velvet-hairy, heart-shaped, sawtoothed, pointed; leaf-stalk about 2-3
cm long. Flowers are borne in a 4-8-flowered, umbellate cyme in
leaf-axils; flower-cluster-stalk up to 5 cm long. Flowers are white,
large, about 4 cm across; flower-stalk 1-2 cm long; bracts 3 below the
calyx, awl-shaped, 8-10 mm long, about 2 mm broad. Sepals are narrowly
ovate-lanceshaped, 1-1.5 cm long, about 5-6 mm broad, densely
velvet-hairy outside, pointed. Petals are oblique, obovate, 1.5-1.8 cm
long, 1.0-1.4 cm broad, blunt. Ovary is spherical, hairy. Capsules are
spherical, densely hairy. The dried flowers are attractive either left
on the tree or used in dried arrangements or as pot-pourri. Forest Wild
Pear is native to South Africa. Flowering: April-July.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Ooty Botanical Garden, Tamil Nadu. |
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