| Grape-Leaf Eleuthero |
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| Original date | 6/2/14 12:16 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 4.28mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX9V |
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Botanical name: Eleutherococcus cissifolius Family: Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Synonyms: Aralia cissifolia, Eleutherococcus cissifolius var. cissifolius, Acanthopanax cissifolius
Synonyms: Aralia cissifolia, Eleutherococcus cissifolius var. cissifolius, Acanthopanax cissifolius
Grape-Leaf Eleuthero is a shrub up to about 3 m
tall. Branches are unarmed or with scattered short prickles.
Leaf-stalks are 4-12 cm long, sometimes prickly, velvet-hairy when
young. Leaves are digitately compound, leaflet-stalks 2-5 mm. Leaflets
are 3-5, oblong, oblanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, 3-8 x 1.5-2.5 cm,
papery, margin single- or double-toothed, tip long-pointed. Flowers are
borne in simple or compound umbels, borne on leafy shoots, at branch
ends. Umbels are 1 to several, densely velvety when young, stalks 3-12
cm. Flower-stalks are 0.8-1.5 cm, calyx entire, hairless. Flowers are
yellowish green, ovary 3-5-carpellate, styles free to base or nearly
so. Fruit is spherical, 6-8 mm in diameter, styles persistent, about 2
mm. Grape-Leaf Eleuthero is found in eastern Himalayas, in Nepal,
Bhutan and Sikkim, at altitudes of 2500-3600 m. Flowering: July.
| Identification credit: Sanjyoti Subba | Photographed in Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary, Sikkim. |
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