| Prickly Spike Thorn |
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| File size | 266218 |
| Original date | 3/28/09 8:08 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 10.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 11.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Gymnosporia royleana Family: Celastraceae (Spike-thorn family)
Synonyms: Maytenus royleana, Euonymus spinosus, Celastrus royleanus
Synonyms: Maytenus royleana, Euonymus spinosus, Celastrus royleanus
Prickly Spike Thorn is a shrubs with very spiny
straight or slightly zigzag branches. Thorns are sturdy, 1-2.5 cm long
in leaf axils. Leaf-stalks are 2-4 mm, leaves obovate or elliptic,
1.5-4 × 0.5-2 cm, thickly papery, base narrow, margin entire or not
slightly toothed, tip pointed to blunt, rarely rounded. Lateral veins
are 5 or 6 pairs. Flowers are borne in 1 to several, fascicled,
1-7-flowered cymes. Petals are white, oblong-ovate. Capsules are
5-7 mm broad, trigonous, splitting open into 3 valves. Prickly
Spike Thorn is found on mountain slopes of Afghanistan, India, Kashmir,
Pakistan, and parts of China. Flowering: all year.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh & Rajouri, J&K. |
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