| Pink Ceylon Woodrose |
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| File size | 503822 |
| Original date | 1/22/24 10:33 AM |
| Resolution | 5472 x 3648 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 146.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DC-FZ10002 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Argyreia kleiniana Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Ipomoea kleiniana, Argyreia populifolia var. fastigiata
Synonyms: Ipomoea kleiniana, Argyreia populifolia var. fastigiata
Pink Ceylon Woodrose is a powerful twiner with stems
sparsely hairy. Leaves are about 10 cm, shallowly heart-shaped, ovate,
somewhat pointed at tip, hairless above, sparingly hairy beneath.
Leaf-stalks are about 5 cm long. Rose-purple flowers are borne in
corymbs 5-10 cm across, carried on 7-15 cm long flower-cluster-stalks.
Flowers are tubular-funnel-shaped, 6 cm or more, hairy outside. Sepals
are 5 mm, ovate, blunt, hairy. Bracts are 2.5 cm by 6 mm, lanceshaped,
persistent. a few outer sometimes leaf-like and stalked. Pink Ceylon
Woodrose is found in South India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed at Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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