| Nepal Trumpet Flower |
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| File size | 652076 |
| Original date | 3/8/10 1:00 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/634s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
| Sensor type |
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Photo: Tabish |
Botanical name: Beaumontia grandiflora Family: Apocynaceae (oleander family)
Synonyms: Echites grandiflora
Synonyms: Echites grandiflora
Nepal trumpet vine is a large evergreen climber. Stem is
woody with rusty velvety shoots, milky juice flows from cut stems. Oppositely
arranged leaves are membranous-leathery, obovate to ovate-oblong,
abruptly acuminate usually smooth and hairless, rarely sparesely hairy
below, 15-30 x 7-18 cm. Leaf stalks are 1.25-2.5 cm long, hairy. Sepals are
inverted-lanceshaped, velvety, 3.5 cm long, often glandular within,
dark red or reddish brown in colour. Flowers are 7.5-12.5 cm long,
bell-shaped, white or creamish, hairless or velvety, petals 5, 2.5
cm long, rounded with a short point. Stamens are 5, staying inside the flower,
alternating with the petals; anthers arrowshaped, connivent
to the stigma forming five sided cone, disc 5-lobed. Style is threadlike,
stigma fusiform. Follicles are oblong, thick, woody, turgid green. Seeds
many ovoid or oblong, compressed, contracted at the top.
Flowering: March-April.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Delhi. |
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