| Red-Stemmed Wild Grape-Vine |
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| File size | 204617 |
| Original date | 12/26/14 5:17 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ampelocissus indica Family: Vitaceae (Grape family)
Synonyms: Vitis indica, Ampelopsis indica, Ampelocissus arnottiana
Synonyms: Vitis indica, Ampelopsis indica, Ampelocissus arnottiana
Red-Stemmed Wild Grape-Vine is a climbing shrub
with branches channelled, rusty-woolly. Leaves are simple, broadly
ovate, sometimes angled, heart-shaped at base, toothed at margin with
teeth hardened at tip, tapering at tip, leathery, hairless above,
rusty-hairy below. Leaf-stalks are 2-8 cm long. Flowers are borne in
dense racemes of umbels, primary branch about 1 cm long, racemes 3-5 x
about 1 cm, peduncles up to 5 cm long, tendrils simple, about 10 cm
long. Flowers are reddish brown, flower-stalks about 2 mm long. Calyx
is saucer-like, entire, hairless. Petals are oblong-ovate, about 2 mm
long. Disc is elongate, covering most of ovary, 5-furrowed. Berries are
spherical, seeds nearly circular in outline, mucronate at base, about 7
x 5.5 mm. Red-Stemmed Wild Grape-Vine is found in Peninsular India and
Sri Lanka. Flowering: March-September.
| Identification credit: Dinesh Valke | Photographed at Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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