| South Indian Marble Tree |
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| File size | 156041 |
| Original date | 5/28/11 12:03 PM |
| Resolution | 1140 x 855 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Elaeocarpus variabilis Family: Elaeocarpaceae (Rudraksh family)
Synonyms: Elaeocarpus glandulosus, Elaeocarpus oblongus
Synonyms: Elaeocarpus glandulosus, Elaeocarpus oblongus
South Indian Marble Tree is a tree up to 20 m tall. Bark is brownish,
warty, wood white to cream. Branchlets are round with fallen leaf scars,
warty. Leaves are simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends.
Leaf-stalk is 3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, purple. Leaves are up to 8 × 5 cm, broad elliptic to elliptic-oblong, tip long-pointed, base
narrow, margin toothed, somewhat leathery, hairless, red when young.
Midrib and nerves purple; secondary nerves about 7 pairs, forked
with glabrous domatia at axils beneath. Flowers are borne in racemes in
leaf axils, with purple branches, up to 15 cm long. Flower-stalks are 1 cm long, purple. Flowers are white with frilly petals. Anthers are neither
bearded and nor awned. Fruit is ellipsoid, 4 × 3 cm, 1-seeded. South
Indian Marble Tree is endemic to the Western Ghats - occasional in South,
Central and south Maharashtra Sahyadris.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
| Photographed at Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra. |