| Nilgiri Crape Jasmine |
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| File size | 368259 |
| Original date | 5/13/17 11:11 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 81.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Tabernaemontana gamblei Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Ervatamia caudata
Synonyms: Ervatamia caudata
Nilgiri Crape Jasmine is a near-threatened shrub, up
to 5 m tall. It is named for 20th century English botanist James Sykes
Gamble. Latex is milky white. Leaves are simple, opposite, pairs
unequal, decussate; leaf-stalk 1 cm long with a short clasping sheath
at base. Leaf-blade is 6.5-12 x 2.4- 4.5 cm, elliptic or
elliptic-lanceshaped, tip with a tail-tapering, acumen to 2 cm long,
base pointed, hairless, pale beneath; midrib raised above; secondary
nerves 7-9 pairs, tertiary nerves netveined. Flowers are bisexual,
borne at branch-ends, in corymb-like cymes. Flowers are white,
flower-stalks stout, 1 cm long; sepals ovate, blunt; flower tube to 1.7
cm long, cylindrical; petals 1.5 cm long, oblong, blunt. Seed-pods are
4 x 1 cm, not curved; aril red. Nilgiri Crape Jasmine is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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