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| Original date | 6/22/21 6:33 PM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 2080 |
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| Focal length | 5.58mm |
| Exposure time | 1/99s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Camera make | OPPO |
| Camera model | OPPO Reno3 Pro 4G |
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Botanical name: Apocynum venetum Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Poacynum venetum, Trachomitum venetum
Synonyms: Poacynum venetum, Trachomitum venetum
Sword-Leaf Dogbane is a perennial herb, with slender
stem, 3-5 ft hairless and circular rarely upper portion softly hairy.
Flowers are borne in a few to many flowered nearly corymb-like cymes,
carried on flower-cluster-stalk 2-4 cm, hairless. Flowers are small,
3-4 mm across, purplish; flower-stalk thread-like, 2-3 mm long,
velvet-hairy. Petals are ovate-oblong about 2 mm long. Sepal-cup-tube
short; sepals lanceshaped, pointed, about 2 mm long. Flowers are 4-6 mm
long, bell-shaped. Anthers are 2.5 mm long, arrow shaped, connective
elongated, membranous, style very short. Leaves are linear,
ovate-elliptic, oblong or lanceshaped, 2-5 x 0.5-2, cm, hairless or
minutely bristly on the nerves beneath, entire or rounded toothed, tip
blunt, with a short sharp point or pointed, base round; leaf-stalk upto
5 mm long. Seed-pods are 2 about 15 cm long and 3-4 mm broad.
Sword-Leaf Dogbane is native to S. Central Europe to Temperate Asia.
Medicinal uses:
Sword-Leaf Dogbane leaves have
been used in the traditional medicine for hypertension treatment. It
has a long history as a Chinese traditional medicine with uses to calm
the liver, soothe the nerves, dissipate heat, and promote diuresis.
Recently, Luobuma tea has been commercialized as a sedative and
anti-aging supplement that has become increasingly popular in North
American and East Asian health food markets.
Medicinal uses:
Sword-Leaf Dogbane leaves have
been used in the traditional medicine for hypertension treatment. It
has a long history as a Chinese traditional medicine with uses to calm
the liver, soothe the nerves, dissipate heat, and promote diuresis.
Recently, Luobuma tea has been commercialized as a sedative and
anti-aging supplement that has become increasingly popular in North
American and East Asian health food markets. | Identification credit: Sonam Tamchos | Photographed in Ladakh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,