| Large-Leaf Pink Plum |
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| Original date | 5/8/24 11:44 AM |
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| Focal length | 250.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Syzygium formosum Family: Myrtaceae (Bottlebrush family)
Synonyms: Eugenia formosa, Jambosa formosa, Syzygium lancifolium
Synonyms: Eugenia formosa, Jambosa formosa, Syzygium lancifolium
Large-Leaf Pink Plum is a medium sized tree with large
leaves about more than a foot. Flowers are distinct rosy pink in
corymb-like cymes, produced at branch ends. They are pink, showy, have
multiple stamens resembling a pom-pom sitting within a sepal-cup with 4
broad round lobes. Leaves are elliptic or oblong-elliptic, leathery,
mesuring up to 34 cm long and 13 cm wide. The leaves have a base that
is heart-shaped, rounded or narrowing, the lateral veins are sunken
above. On the underside, the looped veins are prominent, 0.5-1 cm away
from the margin while the smaller veinlets are faint. Each leaf is held
on a short stalk up to 0.5 cm long. Fruit is a oblong-round berry with
a narrowed base, lobes may still be present. The berry ripens from
green to reddish, measuring to 2.5 cm long by 2 cm wide. Large-Leaf
Pink Plum is found from Nepla to NE India and SE Asia. Flowering:
March-April.
| Identification credit: Vinay Kumar Sahani | Photographed in Miao, Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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