| Malabar Spurge Tree |
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| Original date | 2/13/22 4:56 PM |
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| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Euphorbia vajravelui Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Malabar Spurge Tree is a stout tree up to 4 m
tall, with stems thick, fleshy, flattened or 3-angled, 3-4 cm broad,
hairless; angles armed with paired black spines, 1-10 mm long. It is
named for Dr. E. Vajravelu of the Botanical Survey of India. Leaves are
minute, 5 mm long, ovate. Cyathea arise singly or 2-5 together, 5-8 mm
across, stalkless above the spines along the angles of the stem,
involucral lobes blunt, hairless, 4-glanded along the angles. Male
florets are fascicled in 4 or 5 bundles with 4-6 in each bundle; ovary
hairless; styles fused to the middle. Malabar Spurge Tree is
endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: March-April.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in cultivation at FRLHT (TDU) Garden, Bengaluru. |
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