| Pendulous Wax Flower |
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| File size | 115020 |
| Original date | 5/28/11 12:21 PM |
| Resolution | 972 x 729 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hoya wightii Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Hoya pendula
Synonyms: Hoya pendula
Pendulous Wax Flower is an climber, 2-5 m long, growing on trees. Stems
are many, stout. Young branchlets are slender, green. Oppositely arranged
leaves are thick, elliptic, 6-9 cm long, bluntly long-pointed, with a
narrow base. Leaf-stalk is 0.8-1 cm long. Plant contains milky sap, which
oozes from cuts. Very beautiful flowers are borne in umbels hanging on
6-10 mm long stalk. Flower-stalks are stout, 2-3 cm long. Flowers are
cream colored, 2 cm across, with triangular pointed petals. At the center
of the flower is the corona of 5 purple, fleshy lobes. Seedpods are 7-10
cm long, slender, straight, cylindrical.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
| Photographed at Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra. |