| Trailing Wild Hops |
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| Original date | 10/24/22 6:22 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 36.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
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Botanical name: Flemingia fruticulosa Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Maughania fruticulosa, Flemingia strobilifera var. fruticulosa
Synonyms: Maughania fruticulosa, Flemingia strobilifera var. fruticulosa
Trailing Wild Hops is a trailing undershrub, young
branches densely woolly. Leaves are unifoliolate, 2.5-10.0 cm long,
elliptic, ovate or nearly round, blunt, rarely somewhat pointed,
becoming hairless above, velvet-hairy on the nerves and gland dotted
below; leaf-stalk 2.5-5.0 mm long; stipules 2.5-10 mm long. Flowers are
borne in branch-end racemes, 7.5-15.0 cm long; flowers appearing in
clusters, hidden by distichously arranged bracts. Bracts are up to 2.5
cm long, about 3.2 cm broad, kidney-shaped, folded, broader than long,
slightly notched, leaf-stalk short, stipules persistent. Sepal-cup is
6-6.5 mm long, brown silky, teeth exceeding the tube. Flowers are
white, slightly exceeding the sepal-cup. Fruit is 7.5-8.0 mm long,
velvet-hairy. Trailing Wild Hops is native to the Indian Subcontinent
to China. It is also found in the Himalayas. Flowering: August-October.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Kullu Distt., Himachal Pradesh. |
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