| Funnel-Flower Silverberry |
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| File size | 713772 |
| Original date | 2/23/23 10:16 AM |
| Resolution | 4928 x 3264 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Elaeagnus infundibularis Family: Elaeagnaceae (Silverberry family)
Synonyms: Elaeagnus armata
Synonyms: Elaeagnus armata
Funnel-Flower Silverberry is a shrub, erect to
climbing. Leaves are elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 6.5-10 x 2.6-4.9 cm,
shortly tapering, base rounded to rounded-wedge-shaped, margin wavy,
upper surface becoming hairless, lower surface densely silver-scaly
with some scattered reddish brown scales; leaf-stalk 0.8-1.2 cm.
Flowers are borne on very short shoots in leaf-axils. Flower-stalks are
3-5 mm. Flowers are 1.1-1.3 cm, funnel-shaped with spreading tepals,
creamish with small brown dots. Tepals are ovate, 2-3 mm. Stamens are
inserted in throat; filaments about 0.5 mm; anthers 1.5 mm. Fruit is
oblong-ellipsoid, 1.6-1.8 cm long, about 1 cm broad. Funnel-Flower
Silverberry is native to Eastern Himalaya, from Nepal to Bhutan and NE
India, at altitudes of 1200-2000 m.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju, J.M. Garg | Photographed in Mizoram. |
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