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| File size | 654908 |
| Original date | 3/19/06 2:51 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/712s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Ehretia aspera Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Synonyms: Ehretia laevis, Ehretia punctata, Ehretia heynei
Synonyms: Ehretia laevis, Ehretia punctata, Ehretia heynei
Chamror is a fast-growing, small to medium sized
tree up to 9 m tall. Young shoots and branches are finely velvet-hairy to
becoming hairless. Leaves are 8-15 x 4.5-1.5 cm, elliptic to nearly round,
blunt to pointed, base rounded to wedge-shaped or oblique. Leaf-stalks are
long. Flowers are white, borne in cymes in leaf-axils and at branch-ends,
Flowers are about 5 mm long. Petals ovate-lanceshaped, about 3 mm long,
spreading. Filaments about length of flower, hairless, lower half adnate;
anthers 1.5 mm long. Styles 2-3 mm long, Stigma head-like.
Sepal-cup is 1.5 mm long, 5-partite, minutely
rusty-velvet-hairy. Sepals about 1 mm long, ovate, pointed.
Drupes are yellow or orange, 3-4 mm in diameter. Chamror is found in
Pakistan to India, Himalaya and SE Asia.
Medicinal uses:
The leaves, fruit and root extract is used in the treatment of chest
infections. Bark paste is applied as an ointment for cuts and wounds
Medicinal uses:
The leaves, fruit and root extract is used in the treatment of chest
infections. Bark paste is applied as an ointment for cuts and wounds
| Identification credit: Navendu Pagé | Photographed in Delhi. |
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