| Lanceleaf Wax Flower |
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| File size | 419110 |
| Original date | 6/30/18 4:58 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hoya lanceolata Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Lanceleaf Wax Flower is a stout-stemmed, tree-dwelling
shrub with long drooping branches. Young stems, leaf-stalks and
inflorescence branches are densely velvet-hairy. Leaves are
elongate-rhomboid to ovate lanceshaped, 1.5-6 x 0.6-1.5cm tip pointed
to tapering, base wedge-shaped, 1.5-2 mm thick, fleshy and leathery,
hairless dark green above paler below; leaf-stalk 1-5mm. Flowers are
borne in 6-10 flowered umbels, at branch-ends or in leaf-axils. Flowers
are hairless outside, minutely velvet-hairy inside, tube about 3 mm
long; petals triangular, about 3 x 5 mm. Staminal coronal scales are
shorter and more rounded elliptic, about 2.5 x 2 mm, white or crimson.
Pods are long and very slender, 8-15 x 0.3 cm, surface thin, hairless
and finely striped. Lanceleaf Wax Flower is found in the Himalayas,
from Kumaun to NE India, N. Burma, at altitudes of 1000-2000 m.
Flowering: May-June.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Reiek tlang, Mizoram. |
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