| Pink Jasmine |
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| File size | 198620 |
| Original date | 4/9/14 11:53 AM |
| Resolution | 952 x 714 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 3.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P530 |
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Botanical name: Jasminum dispermum Family: Oleaceae (Jasmine family)
Pink Jasmine is a woody climber, with many fragrant
pinkish-white flowers in drooping clusters at branch-ends and in
leaf-axils. Flowers with a pink flower-tube 1-1.5 cm long, and 5
shorter oblong-rounded lobes spreading to 8 mm, which are white on the
inside. Calyx is about 3 mm, cup-shaped with triangular teeth. The vine
has pinnate leaves with 3-5 leathery leaflets. Terminal leaflet is much
longer 8-10 cm, Leaves at ends of branches often have only one leaflet.
Fruits are elliptic about 1.3 cm long, dark purple. Pink Jasmine is
found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to SW China, SE Asia, at altitudes
of 900-2500 m. Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: Anil Thakur | Photographed in Solan, Himachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,