| Jhelum Silkflower Vine |
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| Original date | 9/10/24 4:20 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 32.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Periploca hydaspidis Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Jhelum Silkflower Vine is a twining shrub, usually
leafless, branches smooth green, about 1.5 mm in diameter. Leaves, when
present, are 40 x 1-3 mm, linear or lanceshaped, nerves obscure,
leaf-stalk 1-2 mm long. Flowers are borne in lax trichotomous cymes in
leaf-axils. Petals are about 2.5 mm long, yellow, oblong-lanceshaped,
hairless outside, hairy inside, corona yellow, of five thread-like
hairy processes. Filaments are hairless, anthers hairy on the back.
Sepals are 5, 1-1.5 mm long, ovate, blunt, fringed with hairs. Bracts
are ovate deciduous or persistent. Seedpods are about 7.5 cm long.
Jhelum Silkflower Vine was originally found growing on the banks of
Jhelum river in Kashmir, and is named after it (Hydaspes is the Greek
name for Jhelum). It is found in Pakistan and NW India, up to 1300 m
elevation.
Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Chenab valley, Doda district, J&K. |
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