| Grey Leaf Heliotrope |
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| File size | 95649 |
| Original date | 7/5/09 10:38 AM |
| Resolution | 768 x 576 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL |
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Botanical name: Heliotropium ovalifolium Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Grey Leaf Heliotrope is a perennial herb, growing up to 3 ft tall,
sometimes with woody base, much branched. Young branches are silvery
velvety. Alternately arranged leaves have stalks up to 1.5 cm long. Leaf
blade is elliptical or obovate, up to 5.5 cm x 2.5 cm, with a wedge-shaped
base and tip which can be rounded, rounded with a small point or pointed.
Inflorescence is a spike-like cyme, silky hairy, without bracts, with
flowers arranged in two rows, up to 4 cm long. Flowers are white,
bisexual, 5-merous, with almost free sepals, densely covered with hairs.
Flower tube is funnel-shaped, up to 3 mm long, velvety outside, petals
ovate-triangular, up to 2 mm long. Stamens remain inside the flower tube.
Fruit splits into 4 nutlets, densely white hairy. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: J. M. Garg | Photographed around Pocharam Lake, Medak district, Andhra Pradesh. |
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