| Malabar Salacia |
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| File size | 101940 |
| Original date | 2/25/05 9:40 AM |
| Resolution | 640 x 480 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 18.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E8700 |
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Botanical name: Salacia malabarica Family: Celastraceae (Spike-thorn family)
Malabar Salacia is a climbing shrubs with
branchlets faintly spiny. Leaves are opposite, 9-13 x 4.5-7 cm,
elliptic-oblong, base wedge-shaped or rounded, tip long-pointed,
leathery. Flowers are in axillary fascicles. Flower-stalks are 2-3 cm
long, petals greenish yellow, elliptic. Berry is hard, spherical, about
5 cm across. Malabar Salacia is endemic to the moist deciduous forests
of Southern Western Ghats. Flowering: February-April.
Identification credit: Santhosh Kumar
| Photographed in Thiruvananthapuram distt, Kerala. |