| Vinca-Leaved Ceropegia |
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| File size | 80275 |
| Original date | 9/28/10 10:19 AM |
| Resolution | 620 x 465 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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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: Ceropegia vincifolia Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Ceropegia hirsuta var. vincifolia
Synonyms: Ceropegia hirsuta var. vincifolia
Vinca-Leaved Ceropegia is a herbacious climber with flattened tuber. Stems
are twining, hairless. Leaves are ovate with a heart-shaped base and
long-pointed tip, with upper surface hairy. Flowers are borne in
many-flowered clusters carried on hairy stalks. Flower-stalks are
hairless. Flowers are 3-8 cm long, yellowish, with a swollen ovoid portion
occupying the lower 1/3 or 1/4 part of the flower-tube. Sepals are linear.
Flower tube has
purple stripes in the upper half, widening in a funnel-shaped manner
towards the mouth. The tube open into 5 petals, 1.5-3.5 long, linear from
a triangular-ovate base, pointed at the tip, fused into a narrow ovoid
cage. Petals are folded back along the mid-rib, inside velvety, with hairy
margin, lower half pale green, upper half dark green.
| Identification credit: Jayesh Patil | Photographed at Kas Plateau, Satara & Kanheri caves, Mumbai, Maharashtra. |
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