| Ginger-Leaf Morning Glory |
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| File size | 434930 |
| Original date | 8/5/16 7:42 AM |
| Resolution | 1820 x 1365 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/4000s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ipomoea asarifolia Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Convolvulus asarifolius, Ipomoea urbica
Synonyms: Convolvulus asarifolius, Ipomoea urbica
Ginger-Leaf Morning Glory is an annual climbing
plant that scrambles over the ground or twines into the surrounding
vegetation for suppor. Stems are herbaceous, creepiing and the tips,
twining, rooting at the nodes, hairless. Leaves are alternate,
rounded-heart-shaped to somewhat kidney-shaped, 4-8 cm long, basally
heart-shaped, rounded at tip, becoming hairless. Flowers are borne
singly in leaf-axils or at branch-ends in simple or compound cymes,
hairless or finely velvet-hairy. Flowers are carried on flower-stalks
1.4-2.4 cm long. Sepals are unequal, the outer 5-6 mm long, the inner
1.0-1.2 cm long, elliptic to ovate, leathery, rounded apically,
mucronate, hairless, verrucose. Flower are lavender to purple, rarely
white, 6-8 cm long, funnel-shaped. Fruits tardily dehiscent capsules,
subspherical, 1.0-1.2 mm long, brown, hairless; seeds brown to dark
brown, 6-7 mm long, minutely gray-velvet-hairy. Ginger-Leaf Morning
Glory is found in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Karaikkudi, Tamil Nadu. |
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