| Velvety Spurge-Creeper |
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| File size | 686760 |
| Original date | 10/18/18 10:38 PM |
| Resolution | 5472 x 3648 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Dalechampia velutina Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Dalechampia scandens var. velutina
Synonyms: Dalechampia scandens var. velutina
Velvety Spurge-Creeper is a climber with stinging
hairs. Leaves are tri-lobed, 6-10 x 3-5 cm, base heart-shaped, thinly
velvet-hairy, middle lobe obovate, pointed, margin entire or minutely
toothed, lateral ones small and oblique, yellowish green, leaf-stalk to
7 cm. Flowers are borne in stalked clusters up to 10 cm. Involucral
bracts are to 5 x 4 cm, tri-lobed, distinctly veined, membranous; male
flowers about 5 mm across; tepals 3 or 4, about 3.5 mm, obovate,
pointed, filaments to 7 mm, connective apiculate; female flowers 6 mm
across, tepals 6, to 5 mm, oblong, pinnatifid, hairy, ovary 5 mm
across, style to 1 cm. Velvety Spurge-Creeper is endemic to Tamil Nadu.
Flowering: December-March.
| Identification credit: R. Kottaimuthu | Photographed in Kolli Hills (Namakkal), Tamil Nadu. |
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