| Large-Flowered Magnolia Vine |
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| File size | 127589 |
| Original date | 5/21/11 7:18 AM |
| Resolution | 912 x 684 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 9.77mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
| Camera model | SP565UZ |
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Botanical name: Schisandra grandiflora Family: Schisandraceae (Magnolia vine family)
Large-Flowered Magnolia Vine is a hairless climber
with young branches lacking wings; leaf-bearing branches elongated.
Flowers are borne singly in leaf-axils, flower-cluster-stalk 1.2-3.6 cm
(male), 2-4.7 cm (female). Tepals are 6-9, white, cream-white, or
sometimes pink-tinged, largest 0.7-1.5 x 0.7-1.5 cm. Males flowers have
stamens 30-50, distinct; pollen 3-colpate. Female flowers have carpels
67-120. Leaf-stalks are 1.1-3 cm; leaf blade elliptic, 6.5-13 x 2-5 cm,
papery, not glaucous, secondary veins (4 or)5 or 6(-8) on each side of
midvein, base wedge-shaped, narrowed, or rarely broadly wedge-shaped,
margin finely toothed to rarely subentire, tip shortly to long
tapering. Large-Flowered Magnolia Vine is found in broad-leaved
forests, coniferous forests, mixed forests, thickets, at altitudes of
1800-3300 m, in the Himalayas, China, Bhutan, Nepal. Flowering:
April-June.
| Identification credit: Ushaprabha Page | Photographed above Yuksum, Sikkim. |
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