| Indian Bowfruit Vine |
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| File size | 869748 |
| Original date | 5/25/13 9:05 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Toxocarpus kleinii Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Indian Bowfruit Vine is a twiner with branchlets
velvet-hairy. Leaves narrow into the stalks. They are elliptic to
obovate, up to 8 x 4 cm, somewhat leathery, base obtuse, tip shortly
tapering. Leaf-stalks are up to 1.5 cm. Flowers are borne in lax cymes,
on stalks up to 3 cm. Bracts are lanceolate, 3 mm. Flower-stalks are
0.5 cm. Sepals are 5, ovate, 4 mm, rusty hairy without. Flowers are
broad-bell-shaped, cream, 1 cm wide. Petals are 5, oblong, 1 cm,
recurved, overlapping to left in bud. Corona is 1, of 5 erect, dorsally
flattened segments attached to staminal column. Stamens are 5;
connective produced above; pollen masses 2 per cell, ascending. Style
apex elongate, longer than staminal column. Seed-pods are paired,
elongate, fusiform, 15 x 1 cm; seeds are oblong, 1.5 x 0.6 cm; coma
silky. Indian Bowfruit Vine is found in Peninsular India and Sri
Lanka. Flowering: July.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed at Anshi WLS, Karnataka. |
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