| Frilly Flower Spindle Tree |
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| File size | 398819 |
| Original date | 5/8/12 5:02 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Euonymus lucidus Family: Celastraceae (Spike-thorn family)
Synonyms: Euonymus pendulus
Synonyms: Euonymus pendulus
Frilly Flower Spindle Tree is a small evergreen
tree or a large shrub with a short trunk, numerous spreading branches
and pendulus branchlets. Bark is grey, corky. Leaves are lanceshaped,
broad-lanceshaped or oblong-lanceshaped, equally tapering, at both
ends, sharply toothed, leathery, glossy above, hairless below. Lateral
nerves are indistinct, midrib pale, prominent. Leaf-stalks are 5-10 mm
long, channelled. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf axils or
supra-axillary. Cluster-stalks are are 8-12 mm long, much compressed.
Flowers are white 4-merous. Sepals are blunt, frilly. Petals are about
4 mm long, oblong, whitish, frilly. Style is short, threadlike. Capsule
is 1.5 cm broad, 3-4-lobed, sharply angled, winged. Seeds have
reddish-orange aril. Frilly Flower Spindle Tree is found in Pakistan,
India, Nepal, Bangladesh, at altitudes of 1800-3000 m. Flowering:
April-May.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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