| Red Star Jasmine |
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| Original date | 1/22/06 4:17 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/336s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Jasminum elongatum Family: Oleaceae (Jasmine family)
Synonyms: Jasminum multiflorum f. acuminatissimum, Jasminum pendulum
Synonyms: Jasminum multiflorum f. acuminatissimum, Jasminum pendulum
A rare jasmine with beautiful rose-tinged white flowers - it is mainly found
in Manipur and Sikkim.
Red Star Jasmine is a shrub having a tendency to climb. Branchlets are hairy and
slender. Leaves opposite, simple, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, up to 5 cm
long, hairy on the nerves beneath, somewhat wavys - leafstalk is short.
It bears beautiful star shaped flowers, snow white in color,
with pink on the underside of the petals. Because of this pink underside,
the buds appear completely pinkish red.
Flowers scentless, occuring 6-10 in terminal flat-topped clusters. The green
covering of the flower is hairy. Petals are white, tinged with red on the
underside, flower tube 1.5 cm long, lobes half the length of the tube or less,
acute. The flowers and the plant have a strong resemblance to those of
Star Jasmine (Jasminum multiflorum)
- infact, in Manipur the two flowers are known by the same name, Kundo.
Berry simple or didymous, globose, 6 mm in diam., black when ripe,
surrounded by suberect subulate calyx teeth. Red Star Jasmine is found in Eastern
Himalayas, from Sikkim, Bhutan, Khasia mountains, and NE India, at altitudes of
300-1500 m. It is also found in South India to Hongkong, Cultivated elsewhere
in India.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi |
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