| Gold Finger Plant |
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| File size | 150550 |
| Original date | 2/22/14 3:31 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 7.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/724s |
| Aperture | 4.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E5200 |
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Botanical name: Juanulloa parasitica Family: Solanaceae (Potato family)
Synonyms: Juanulloa aurantiaca, Brugmansia floribunda
Synonyms: Juanulloa aurantiaca, Brugmansia floribunda
Gold Finger Plant is a woody vine or shrub, often
growing on trees, which can grow over 1 m in height. Leaves are
elliptic to ovate about 6-22 cm long. Leaf margin is entire and both
base and tip are rounded to pointed. The upper surface is hairless
while the underside is hairy with star-shaped hairs. Flowers are
tubular, about 4-4.5 cm long, orange colored and borne in a cluster.
Calyx is tubular, 5-angled, ridged, also of orange color. The flower is
slightly longer than the sepal tube, protruding out and enlarging
upwards with 5 short and rounded petals. Gold Finger Plant is native to
Mexico, cultivated elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Aarti Khale | Photographed in cultivation in Mumbai. |
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