| Wightia Tree |
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| Original date | 9/28/19 8:31 AM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 300.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Wightia speciosissima Family: Paulowniaceae (Empress Tree family)
Synonyms: Gmelina speciosissima, Wightia alpinii, Wightia elliptica, Wightia gigantea
Synonyms: Gmelina speciosissima, Wightia alpinii, Wightia elliptica, Wightia gigantea
Wightia Tree is a tree or semiepiphytic pseudovine, up
to 15 m tall. Bark is grayish white. Branches are somewhat drooping,
brown, warty, star-shaped hairy when young. Leaf-stalks are round,
about 2 cm, above grooved; leaf blade often oblong to elliptic, up to
30 x 15 cm, below sparsely gray-yellow star-shaped hairy, above
hairless, base wedge-shaped to rounded, tip pointed. Flowers are borne
in thyrses more than 30 cm long, narrow, sparsely rusty star-shaped
hairy; cymes often 3-flowered; flower-cluster-stalks up to 1 cm.
Flower-stalks are short. Calyx is up to 8 mm, outside hairy; sepals
round to broadly ovate. Flowers are reddish, up to 3.5 cm; tube
compressed, distally gradually enlarged, outside hairy. Stamens are 4,
filaments hairless. Capsules are oblong-ovoid to narrowly ellipsoid,
about 4 cm, seeds narrowly winged. Wightia Tree is found in the
Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, Assam, N. Burma, Indo-China, W. China,
at altitudes of 1200-2600 m. Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed in Yuksom, West Sikkim. |
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