| Woody Salacia |
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| File size | 479310 |
| Original date | 4/18/21 10:25 PM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 40.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Salacia fruticosa Family: Salicaceae (Willow family)
Woody Salacia is a woody climbing shrub, with
branchlets looped; young shoots finely velvet-hairy. Leaves are 3.8-7 x
2-4 cm, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, base rounded or
wedge-shaped, tip bluntly tapering, leathery; leaf-stalk about 5 mm
long. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils, on flower-stalks 3-5 mm
long. Sepal-cup is 5-lobed, minute; sepals minutely fringed with hairs
on margins. Petals are 5, brownish-yellow, about 2 mm across, round,
disc fleshy. Stamens are 3, inserted on the inner margin of the disc;
filaments broad, curved. Ovary is spherical, minute, partially sunk in
the disc, 3-celled. Berry is 2-2.5 cm across, spherical, red, seeds
1-3. Woody Salacia is found in Western Ghats. Flowering: February-May.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in cultivation at FRLHT (TDU) Garden, Bengaluru. |
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