| Climbing Buckthorn |
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| File size | 668290 |
| Original date | 5/27/15 4:26 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Rhamnus wightii Family: Rhamnaceae (Ber family)
Climbing Buckthorn is a thornless straggler to a
liana. Leaves are alternate, elliptic-oblong, up to 10 x 4 cm, somewhat
leathery, hairless; nerves 7 pairs; base blunt, margin
toothed-recurved, tip tapering; leaf-stalk up to 8 mm; stipules 0.
Flowers are borne in spikes in leaf-axils, also at branch-ends, up to 5
cm; flower-cluster-stalk 1 cm. Flowers are 3 mm wide; flower-stalk 2
mm; bracts puberulous. Calyx 5-lobed; sepals ovoid. Petals are 5,
yellowish, hoodlike. Disk is adnate to calyx, pitted. Stamens are 5.
Ovary is urn-shaped, 3-celled; styles 3; stigma discoid. Drupe is 7 mm
wide, 3- celled; seeds 3, conical, 3 mm wide. Climbing Buckthorn is
found in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Flowering: January-April.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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