| South-Indian Wax Flower |
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| File size | 562569 |
| Original date | 10/17/11 3:27 PM |
| Resolution | 3008 x 2000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 50.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hoya pauciflora Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Hoya wightiana
Synonyms: Hoya wightiana
South-Indian Wax Flower is a beautiful plant with
attractive waxy foliage and sweet scented flowers, native to South
India and Sri Lanka, now grown as a house plant in the Western world.
It is a climber with stem drooping, hairless, wiry. Flowers are white,
1.2-2 cm across, bell-shaped, lobes shallow, triangular; corona 4 mm
across, lobes rounded at tip. Flower-stalks are 1.5-2 cm long, slender;
sepals 1.5 mm long, ovate. Flowers are borne in few-flowered, nearly
stalkless umbel-like cymes, at branch-ends on lateral smaller branches
or in leaf-axils. Leaves are 4-6 x 0.7-0.9 cm, linear-lanceshaped, tip
blunt, base flat; leaf-stalk up to 3 mm long. Flowering:
November-December.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
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