| Deccan Blinding Tree |
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| File size | 657281 |
| Original date | 1/28/26 3:53 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 109.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DC-FZ10002 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Excoecaria oppositifolia var. crenulata Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Excoecaria crenulata, Excoecaria robusta
Synonyms: Excoecaria crenulata, Excoecaria robusta
Deccan Blinding Tree is a tree up to 5 m tall, with
branchlets round, hairless, latex white, profuse. Leaves are simple,
opposite, decussate; stipule falling off; leaf-stalk 0.7-1 cm long,
planoconvex in cross section, hairless; blade up to 15.2 x 3.8 cm,
inverted-lanceshaped to elliptic-lanceshaped, papery, tip tapering,
base pointed, margin crenulate; secondary nerves 10-16 pairs; tertiary
nerves distantly obliquely percurrent. Flowers are unisexual,
dioecious; male flowers in slender in leaf-axils spikes, about 5 cm
long; female few flowered in leaf-axils racemes. Capsule are trilobed;
seeds 3 nearly spherical. Deccan Blinding Tree is native to South
India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed in Maditerai, Tamil Nadu. |
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