| Laurel-Leaf Milkweed |
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| File size | 457076 |
| Original date | 1/26/18 11:54 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 250.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| 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: Genianthus laurifolius Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Asclepias laurifolia Roxb., Secamone laurifolia, Toxocarpus laurifolius
Synonyms: Asclepias laurifolia Roxb., Secamone laurifolia, Toxocarpus laurifolius
Laurel-Leaf Milkweed is a twinning shrub with hairless
stems. Leaves are broadly elliptic, obtusely tapering, base
wedge-shaped, stalk slender. Leaves 7-10 x 5-7 cm or larger, nerves
slender, spreading, stalk 1.2-4 cm. Flowers are borne in rusty-hairy
cymes 2.5-10 cm long and broad. Flowers are 2-3 mm across, of two forms
in the same cyme - one small with densely breaded tepals, the other
much larger, with oblong, hairless tepals. Seedpods are 12 cm long, 4
mm broad, very slender, round in cross-section, straight. Laurel-Leaf
Milkweed is found in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, E Himalaya, Peninsular
India.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed in Kadra region, North Karnataka. |
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