| Khasi Beauty Berry |
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| File size | 449369 |
| Original date | 11/10/08 7:28 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-P52 |
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Botanical name: Callicarpa rubella Family: Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Synonyms: Callicarpa lasiantha, Callicarpa sessilifolia, Callicarpa purpurea Lem. (illeg.)
Synonyms: Callicarpa lasiantha, Callicarpa sessilifolia, Callicarpa purpurea Lem. (illeg.)
Khasi beauty berry is a shrub about 2 m tall,
prominent by its fine purple, 2 mm across berries. Flowers are purple,
greenish, or white, about 3 mm, born in cymes 2-4 cm across, carried on
flower-cluster-stalk about 1-3 cm; bracts small. Sepal-cup has bluntly
triangular teeth. Leaf-stalks are very short to leaf nearly stalkless;
leaf blade lanceshaped, inverted-lanceshaped, obovate-elliptic, or
ovate, 8-14 x 2-8 cm, base heart-shaped and sometimes oblique, margin
minutely toothed, irregularly sawtoothed, or sawtoothed, tip tapering
to with a tail; veins 6-10 pairs, midvein, lateral veins, and netveined
veins elevated on both surfaces. Khasi beauty berry is found in NE
India, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, at
altitudes of 100-3500 m. Flowering: May-July.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Ailawng, Mizoram. |
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