| Grape-leaf Wood Rose |
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| File size | 466866 |
| Original date | 1/7/24 5:08 PM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 3.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Camonea vitifolia Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning-glory family)
Synonyms: Merremia vitifolia, Convolvulus vitifolius, Ipomoea vitifolia
Synonyms: Merremia vitifolia, Convolvulus vitifolius, Ipomoea vitifolia
Grape-leaf Wood Rose is large twinning or prostrate herb. The stems are
purplish when old, and grow to 4 m long. Leaf blade is circular in outline,
5-18 by 5-16 cm, cordate at the base, palmately 5-7-lobed. Flower-buds
narrow-ovoid, acute. Flower tube is funnel shaped -6 cm long, glabrous, bright
yellow, paler towards the base. Anthers spirally twisted. Found both in regions
with a feeble and in those with a rather strong dry season, in open grasslands,
thickets, and hedges, along fields, in teak-forests, along edges of secondary
forests, on river-banks and waysides. Grape-leaf Wood Rose is native to India
and Ceylon to Indo-China and the Andamans, throughout Malaysia.
| Identification credit: Pravin Kawale | Photographed in Karnataka, Maharashtra & Dehardun. |
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