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| Original date | 6/23/21 9:51 PM |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Sterculia rubiginosa Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Synonyms: Sterculia humilis, Sterculia obovata, Sterculia rufa
Synonyms: Sterculia humilis, Sterculia obovata, Sterculia rufa
Rusty Sterculia is a bushy tree that can grow up to 20
m tall. The plant produces both unisexual and bisexual flowers. The
flowers are green, yellow or white with red center, commonly covered
with pink hairs, about 1.3 cm across, and occur on many-flowered
flowering clusters that are 6-30 cm long. Its spirally arranged,
stalked leaves have leaf blades that are papery to leathery, covered
with hair below, lance-shaped, oval or egg-shaped, 7-27 cm by 3-13 cm,
with 8-16 pairs of side veins and prominent venation underneath.The
fruits are 3-5 seed-pods occuring in a cluster, splitting open when
dry. Each follicle is oblong, red or orange-brown, densely covered with
fine hair outside, 3-10 cm long by 1.5-2.5 cm wide, and contains 2-6
seeds. Rusty Sterculia grows in both forests, up to 1600 m altitude, in
NE India, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar
Is., Philippines, Vietnam.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in cultivation at FRLHT (TDU) Garden, Bengaluru. |
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