| Large-Flowered Ceropegia |
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| File size | 363672 |
| Original date | 7/13/06 3:54 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 24.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 5.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Ceropegia macrantha Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Large-Flowered Ceropegia is an extensive climber with stem twining, and
branches hairless or hairy. Leaves are 10-18 cm long, generally ovate-
lanceolate, sometimes ovate, hairless or sparsely hairy on both the sides,
leaf-stalk 0.6-1.3 cm long. Flowers are borne in stalked many flowered
cymes. Flower-stalk is 0.6-2 cm long, bracts subulate. Sepals are 6-7 mm
long. Flowers are pale, tube 1.5-3 cm long. Lower about one third part is
inflated, then abruptly narrowed for 0.8-2.1 cm before dillating at mouth
into an elongated crown. Lobes are 1.2-3 cm long, dull green at base,
mottled purple above, with dense brown black tips, purple hairy.
Seed pods are 10-13 cm long. Large-Flowered Ceropegia is found in
subtropical Himalayas, from Kashmir to Bhutan, at altitudes of 150-500 m.
Identification credit: Krishan Lal
| Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |