| Mangrove Wax Plant |
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| File size | 202780 |
| Original date | 11/30/02 12:00 AM |
| Resolution | 1000 x 750 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 12.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E5600 |
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Botanical name: Hoya diversifolia Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Hoya diversifolia subsp. diversifolia
Synonyms: Hoya diversifolia subsp. diversifolia
Mangrove Wax Plant is a climbing shrub with milky
latex on plant parts. Plants are often found hanging down from branches
of trees. Leaves are fleshy, very thick, round, broadly elliptic or
obovate, blunt or apiculate at tip, rounded at base. Flowers are borne
in many-flowered umbels, on stout thick, flower-cluster-stalk, 2.6 cm
long. Flowers are white or rose-colored with pink corona. Calyx is
membranous; sepals elliptic-blunt, usually fringed with hairs at the
tips. Flowers are finely velvet-hairy within; petals
heart-shaped-tapering. Corona of 5 processes attached to the bases both
of the staminal column and of the flower tube. Seedpods are single
nearly linear, sickle shaped, 4-5 x 3-5 mm; pericarp thick. Mangrove
Wax Plant is found in SE Asia and Andaman Islands. Flowering:
April-May.
| Identification credit: Joju P. Alappatt | Photographed in Chatham Island, North Andamans, Aandaman & Nicobar. |
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