| Linden-Leaf Morning Glory |
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| File size | 761605 |
| Original date | 11/27/22 5:20 PM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 1800 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.745mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 1.75 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | OnePlus |
| Camera model | LE2101 |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Stictocardia tiliifolia Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)
Synonyms: Ipomoea tiliifolia, Convolvulus tiliifolius, Argyreia tiliifolia
Synonyms: Ipomoea tiliifolia, Convolvulus tiliifolius, Argyreia tiliifolia
Linden-Leaf Morning Glory is a large twinning shrub
with funnel-shaped, reddish purple flowers with a dark center, 8-10 cm;
limb 8-10 cm in diameter. Midpetaline bands are glandular dotted
outside, sometimes hairy. Stamens are unequal; anthers lanceshaped,
about 5 mm. Style is thread-like. Flowers are borne 1-3-flowered cymes,
carried on flower-cluster-stalk 1.5-7.5 cm long. Flower-stalks are
2-3.5 cm, sepals circular, nearly equal or inner ones shorter, 1-1.8
cm, velvet-hairy or hairless below, minutely glandular dotted,
enlarging to 4-5 cm in fruit, tip rounded or notched. Young branches
are velvet-hairy, finally becoming hairless. Leaf-stalk is 3-14 cm;
leaf blade broadly ovate or circular, 6-20 x 5-20 cm, herbaceous,
velvet-hairy or nearly hairless, below glandular dotted, base
heart-shaped, tip short tapering or abruptly tapering, mucronulate;
lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs. Fruit spherical, 2-3.5 cm in diameter.
Linden-Leaf Morning Glory is native to Tropical & Subtropical Asia to
Pacific.
Flowering: November-February.
| Identification credit: Revati Gindi | Photographed near Pune, Maharashtra. |
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