| Spiral-Vined Silkpod |
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| File size | 477555 |
| Original date | 3/20/15 2:51 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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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: Parsonsia alboflavescens Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Parsonsia spiralis
Synonyms: Parsonsia spiralis
Spiral-Vined Silkpod is a woody lianas, up to 10 m long, hairless except
for inflorescences. Branches are pale gray. Leaf-stalk is 2-4 cm. Leaves
are ovate or subelliptic, 4-12 X 3-7.5 cm, base wedge-shaped to shallowly
heart-shaped, lateral veins 5-7 pairs. Flowers are borne in cymes 8-15 X
8-11 cm, which are carried on stalks 3-9 cm long. Sepals are 2 mm, glands
broadly triangular, membranous. Flowers white or greenish, tube about 5
mm, limb 1-2 cm wide, petals about 6 mm. Anthers are about 3.5 0.6 mm,
inserted at middle of corolla tube. Ovary as long as or slightly shorter
than disc, glabrous. Seed-pods are 2, linear-cylindric, parallel, 7-16 X
1-2 cm. Seeds are oblong 1.5-1.8 cm X 2 mm. Flowering: April-October.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg, Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu & Anmod Ghat, Karnataka. |
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