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| Original date | 5/17/08 4:30 PM |
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| Focal length | 6.33mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
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| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-T20 |
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Botanical name: Phyllanthus myrtifolius Family: Phyllanthaceae (Amla family)
Mousetail Plant is a small shrub about 50 cm tall with tiny inverted-lance
shaped leaves and small, slender, pendulous red flowers which probably
inspired the name Mousetail Plant. Branches are cylidrical, branchlets
wing-angled, angles rough. Alternately arranged leaves are inverted-lance
shaped, 1.2-1.6 cm long and 3.5-4.5 mm wide, leathery, smooth, tip not
sharp pointed. Flowers are borne in several-flowered fascicles in leaf
axils. Flowers are typically longer than the leaves and hang down by
slender, red filament-like stalks, ending in a roundish bowl-like flower.
Fruits are capsules 2 mm long, 3 mm wide. Mousetail Plant is native to
SW India and Sri Lanka. It is grown as an ornamental, particularly as
a bonsai in NE India. Flowering: May-August.
Medicinal uses:
Mousetail Plant is grown as a medicinal plant
in China.
Medicinal uses:
Mousetail Plant is grown as a medicinal plant
in China. | Identification credit: Sweedle Cerejo | Photographed in Imphal, Manipur. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,