| Indo-China Magnolia |
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| Original date | 5/14/12 11:55 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 68.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 5.9 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX9V |
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Botanical name: Magnolia cathcartii Family: Magnoliaceae (Magnolia family)
Synonyms: Alcimandra cathcartii, Michelia cathcartii, Sampacca cathcartii
Synonyms: Alcimandra cathcartii, Michelia cathcartii, Sampacca cathcartii
Indo-China Magnolia is a trees up to 50 m tall, and
up to 50 cm d.b.h. It was named for James F. Cathcart, member of the
Indian Civil Service and amateur botanist of the 19th century. Young
twigs are velvet-hairy, terminal vegetative buds are long conic, white
hairy. Leaf-stalks are 1.5-2 cm, without a stipular scar. Leaves are
ovate to elliptic-ovate, 8-18 cm, leathery, base rounded to broadly
wedge-shaped, glossy, secondary veins 12-15 on each side of midvein,
slender. Spathaceous bract green, just basal to tepals. Peduncle are
about 1.5 cm. Tepals are 9, white, with pellucid glands, about
9-veined, outer 3 tepals oblong, 5.5-6 x 2-2.2 cm, tepals of inner 2
whorls obovate-elliptic, slightly shorter and smaller than outer ones.
Stamens are about 4 cm, connective protruding and forming a mucro.
Anthers are about 2.8 cm. Fruit is 3.5-4 cm, mature carpels compressed
spherical, white warty. Indo-China Magnolia is found in Eastern
Himalayas, in Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Myanmar, Vietnam, at altitudes of
1800-2700 m.
Flowering: May.
| Identification credit: Sanjyoti Subba | Photographed in Fambong-Lho Wildlife Sanctuary, Sikkim. |
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