| Poplar Sterculia |
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| Original date | 5/4/21 3:58 PM |
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| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 36.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Hildegardia populifolia Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Synonyms: Sterculia populifolia, Sterculia candollei
Synonyms: Sterculia populifolia, Sterculia candollei
Poplar Sterculia is a smooth-barked deciduous tree.
Leaf-stalks are long, 5-12 cm, leaves large, 7-10 x 10 cm, round,
palmately 7-nerved, deeply heart-shaped at the base, tapering at the
tip, and with entire margins. The scarlet flowers are borne in
leaf-axils and at branch-end, in panicles which are shorter than the
leaves, up to 15 cm long. The flower buds are oblong. Sepal-cup is
small, 6 mm long, scarlet, with the sepals linear-spoon-shaped and
divided nearly to the base. It is downy externally. There are 10
stamens. The bristly ovary is avoid, tapering to a short style, with a
5-lobed stigma. The fruit is composed of 5 follicles, which are up to
10 cm long by 5 cm broad, obliquely lanceshaped in outline,
membraneous, inflated, and strongly veined, with 2 seeds. The seeds are
ovate-oblong, pale brown, and 15-20 mm long. Poplar Sterculia is only
found in certain parts of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in cultivation at FRLHT (TDU) Garden, Bengaluru. |
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