| Bose Silverweed |
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| File size | 442871 |
| Original date | 10/30/17 4:43 AM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Argyreia boseana Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Bose Silverweed is a woody perennial herb with stems
hairless or velvet-hairy. It is named in the memory of Sir J.C. Bose.
It has some similarity to the East Himalayan
Hooker's Woodrose. Leaves are
ovate-heart-shaped, up to 30 x 24 cm long, often broader than long,
hairless, blunt and apiculate. Leaves have 8-14 pairs of nerves.
Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, 1 or 2 or more flowered.
Flower-cluster-stalks are as long or longer than the flower-stalks,
hairless or softly hairy. Sepal cup is tubular, 1.8-2 cm, sepals
unequal. Flower tube is 5-9 cm long, broadly funnel-shaped, pink,
hairless, limb 7 cm across. Stamens are unequal ovary hairless. Floral
bracts are up to 6 x 1.6 cm. Capsules are spherical, berry-like, 1.6 cm
across, leathery, hairless. Bose Silverweed is found in cultivated
lands, along road sides and railway lines, in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Flowering: August-October.
Medicinal uses:
Stem is used in healing of
wounds. Paste of the stem is applied on the wound, after cleaning of
the wound, until it gets recovered.
Medicinal uses:
Stem is used in healing of
wounds. Paste of the stem is applied on the wound, after cleaning of
the wound, until it gets recovered. | Identification credit: Pramod Lawand | Photographed in Sakharpa, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. |
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