| Honeysuckle Mistletoe |
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| File size | 236827 |
| Original date | 6/17/06 7:06 PM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1347 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 9.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | OLYMPUS CORPORATION |
| Camera model | C770UZ |
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Botanical name: Macrosolen parasiticus Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Lonicera parasitica, Loranthus loniceroides, Loranthus macrophyllus
Synonyms: Lonicera parasitica, Loranthus loniceroides, Loranthus macrophyllus
Honeysuckle Mistletoe is a tree-dwelling parasitic
shrub, with branches round, hairless. Leaves are ovate-lanceshaped,
tapering, rounded at base; nerves obscure; leaf-stalk 1.5 cm long.
Flower-cluster-stalk is 1 cm long, 1-6-flowered; bracteoles round;
sepal-cup 5 mm long, tubular, hairless. Flowers are scarlet below,
white or green at tip, curved; lobes deflexed, divided to above the
middle; filaments green; stigma hemispherical. Berry is ovoid, smooth,
crowned with tubular sepal-cup. Honeysuckle Mistletoe is native to
South West India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Navendu Pagé | Photographed in Western Ghats. |
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