| Dock-Leaf Morning Glory |
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| File size | 535280 |
| Original date | 6/20/18 9:02 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 51.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ipomoea rumicifolia Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Convolvulus hirtus, Ipomoea gnaphalosperma
Synonyms: Convolvulus hirtus, Ipomoea gnaphalosperma
Dock-Leaf Morning Glory is a creeping herb with stems
spreading, hairy. Leaves are broadly arrow-shaped, to
ovate-heart-shaped, blunt at tip and notched, hairless, with wavy
margins, about 2.5 cm long. Leaves remind on of Docks and Sorrels.
Flowers are borne in leaf axils, in 1-2 flowered clusters. Flowers are
white, trumpet-shaped, hairless. Sepals are large, narrowly
elliptic-lanceshaped, hairy, almost covering the flower-tube. Dock-Leaf
Morning Glory is found in South India and Africa.
| Identification credit: N. Arun Kumar | Photographed in Palladam, Tamil Nadu. |
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