| Sword-Leaf Ceropegia |
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| File size | 368973 |
| Original date | 8/9/17 4:27 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | $meteringMode |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 600D |
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Botanical name: Ceropegia ensifolia Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Ceropegia albiflora, Ceropegia ciliata subsp. ensifolia
Synonyms: Ceropegia albiflora, Ceropegia ciliata subsp. ensifolia
Sword-Leaf Ceropegia is a hairless twiner with tuber
2.5 cm across, nearly spherical. Leaves are up to 10 x 0.5 cm,
linear-lanceshaped, tapering, base narrowed into a short leaf-stalk.
Flowers are borne in cymes 5-10 cm long, in leaf-axils, velvet-hairy.
Flowers are green, few together; sepals 4 x 1 mm, lanceshaped; flower
tube 1.5 cm long, slightly swollen below, narrow above; lobes 1.5 cm
long, oblong, hairless; outer corona 2 mm across, lobes triangular,
fringed with hairs; inner corona spoon-shaped, 1.5 mm long, fringed
with hairs towards base. Sword-Leaf Ceropegia is endemic to Southern
Western Ghats. Flowering: August-October.
| Identification credit: S. Jeevith | Photographed in The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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