| Blue Mist |
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| File size | 324917 |
| Original date | 5/21/16 7:13 AM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Memecylon angustifolium Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Blue Mist is a shrub or a treelet, about 4 m tall.
Leaves are simple, opposite, decussate; lamina narrow linear-elliptic
to linear-lanceolate; tip pointed, base narrowed, with entire margin.
Flowers are blue in color and are borne in umbels in leaf axils.
Inflorescences are thyrse-shaped to umbel-shaped, many-flowered, 1-2 cm
across, stalkless or with up to 1 cm long primary axes at the nodes on
the branches below the leaves. Flower-stalks are 1-3 times the calyx
length. Calyx 2-3.4 mm wide, smooth or shallowly striped inside, flat
or shallowly 4-lobed. Petals widely elliptic-ovate, blue. Anthers
1.3-1.6 mm long; connective with a gland. Fruit is a blackish pruple,
one-seeded berry. Blue Mist is native to India and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: April-May.
| Identification credit: Anurag Sharma | Photographed in Hebri, Karnataka. |
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