| Golden Lobster Claw |
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| File size | 99299 |
| Original date | 11/14/10 4:00 PM |
| Resolution | 552 x 414 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-T200 |
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Botanical name: Heliconia latispatha Family: Heliconiaceae (Heliconia family)
Golden Lobster Claw is a plant 2-4 m tall, with a well-developed
pseudostem. Leaves are 3-5 per shoot, green, longest blade 75-150 cm long,
18-33 cm broad. Inflorescences are erect, up to 45 cm. Showy bracts are
spirally arranged, 8-13 per inflorescence, middle bract with outer surface
orange and red and hairless, 14-19.5 cm, 5--7 cm wide at base. Flowers are
10-15 per cincinnus, hidden inside the base of bracts. They are green,
yellow, or orange with dark green sepal margins, sometimes sparsely
puberulent along fused sepal margins, 3.5-4.6 cm, 7-8 mm wide at gibbous
base, nearly straight. Fruits are blue in color. Golden Lobster Claw is
native to C. America and S. America, widely cultivated world over.
Identification credit: Samir Mehta
| Photographed in Mumbai. |