| Wild Star Jasmine |
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| File size | 659403 |
| Original date | 1/31/06 1:18 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/232s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Jasminum nervosum Family: Oleaceae (Jasmine family)
Synonyms: Jasminum stenopetalum, Jasminum trineuron
Synonyms: Jasminum stenopetalum, Jasminum trineuron
Wild Star Jasmine is a climbing shrub 1-5 m, hairless or
sparsely velvet-hairy. Branchlets are round in cross-section. Leaves
are opposite, simple, ovate to lanceshaped, 2.5-13 x 0.7-6 cm, papery,
3- or 5-veined from base, base broadly wedge-shaped to flat, rarely
somewhat heart-shaped, tip pointed to tapering. Leaf-stalk is 2-10 mm,
jointed. Flowers are borne at branch-ends or in leaf-axils, solitary or
in 3-5-flowered cymes; bracts linear, 1-13 mm. Flower-stalks are 1-10
mm, sepals 7 or 8, linear, 1-1.7 cm, often enlarged in fruit. Flowers
are white, flat-faced; tube 1.3-2.6 cm; petals 8-10, lanceshaped,
1.5-2.5 cm. Berry is red becoming black, spherical, 0.7-2 cm × 5-13 mm.
Wild Star Jasmine is found in the Himalayas, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar,
Nepal, Sikkim, Vietnam, up to altitudes of 2000 m. Flowering:
March-July.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Imphal Manipur & Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh. |
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