| Frilly Leaf Currant |
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| File size | 431083 |
| Original date | 6/10/10 11:31 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Ribes glaciale Family: Grossulariaceae (Gooseberry family)
Synonyms: Ribes laciniatum
Synonyms: Ribes laciniatum
Frilly Leaf Currant is a shrub 1-3 m tall. Branchlets are
velvety,thornless. Buds are purplish brown, oblong to oblong-ovoid, 5-7
mm, tip acuminate. Leaf stalks are 1-2.5 cm, velvety and sparsely
glandular hairy. Leaves are broadly ovate to round, 2-5 × 1.8-4.5 cm. Base
is flat or heart-shaped. Leaves are divided into 3-5 lobes, margin incised doubly serrate, often also with some large, simple teeth, apex acute to
shortly acuminate. Terminal lobe is rhombic to ovate, slightly longer than
lateral ones. Male flowers are borne erect racemes, 3-5 cm, 9-20-flowered.
Female ones are almost as long, fewer flowered. Sepal cup is reddish or
purplish brown, hairless - tube saucer-shaped, 1-2 mm. Sepals are
petal-like, erect, lanceshaped to narrowly oblong, 2-3.2 mm. Petals are
purple, 0.5–0.6 mm. Stamens are slightly longer than petals. Fruit is red
to dark purple, round, 0.5-0.7 cm. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Nongthombam Ullysess, Sunit Singh, Sajan Thakur | Photographed in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh & Pandavsera, Madhmaheshwar, Uttarakhand. |
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