| Rosy Sapphire Berry |
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| File size | 393554 |
| Original date | 12/13/17 9:28 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Symplocos macrophylla subsp. rosea Family: Symplocaceae (Saphire-berry family)
Synonyms: Symplocos rosea, Symplocos racemosa Wight ex C.B.Cl.
Synonyms: Symplocos rosea, Symplocos racemosa Wight ex C.B.Cl.
Rosy Sapphire Berry is a tree up to 5 m tall; young
parts velvet-hairy. Flowers are bisexual, pink, in unbranched spikes in
leaf-axils, 4 cm long, velvet-hairy; bracts solitary at the base of
each flower-stalk. Bracteoles fall off early; sepal tube is adnate to
the ovary, sepals 5, 1.2 cm, ovate pointed, woolly. Flowers are 10 mm
across, hairless, petals 5, 2.5 mm long, oblong, blunt; stamens
numerous. Leaves are simple, alternate, without stipules; leaf-stalk
7-13 mm, slender, sparsely haired, grooved above. Leaf blade is
7.5-17.5 x 3.5-7.5 cm, inverted-lanceshaped, elliptic-oblong or
elliptic obovate, base wedge-shaped, tip tapering, bluntly tapering,
margin sawtoothed, sparsely haired, leathery; lateral nerves 6-7 pairs,
slender, pinnate, prominent; intercostae netveined, faint. Fruit is a
drupe, 1.5 x 0.5 cm, oblong, blue, hairless, crowned by the sepals;
seeds 1-3, oblong. Rosy Sapphire Berry is endemic to Southern Western
Ghats. Flowering: March-May.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Anamalais, Tamil Nadu. |
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