| Hairy Wax Flower |
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| File size | 522263 |
| Original date | 4/2/19 10:22 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 44.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Hoya villosa Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Hairy Wax Flower is a large climber growing ontrees,
hairy throughout. Stems are stout, up to 3 m, about 8 mm in diameter.
Leaf-stalks are 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade oblong, 7-11 x 3.5-5 cm, leathery
or thick papery, base rounded or flat, tip with a short sharp point;
lateral veins 4-7 pairs, obliquely rising up, anastomosing before
margin. Flowers are borne in spherical, up to 30-flowered clusters in
leaf axils, carried on flower-cluster-stalk, 3-7 cm. Flower-stalks are
1-2 cm. Sepals are rounded. Flowers star-shaped patent; tube about as
long as lobes, hairless outside, velvet-hairy inside; petals
triangular, about 4 x 4 mm. Corona lobes are thick, outer angle
rounded, inner angle pointed or short tapering, with an ovoid
projection on back, center hollow. Follicles are linear, 9-11 cm x
about 4 mm. Hairy Wax Flower is found in Valleys, open woods, altitudes
of 400-1000 m, in the Himalayas, China, Vietnam. Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Momang Taram | Photographed in Arunachal Pradesh. |
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