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| File size | 613183 |
| Original date | 5/26/12 7:09 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 42.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Eriolaena quinquelocularis Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Synonyms: Microchlaena quinquelocularis
Synonyms: Microchlaena quinquelocularis
Bothi is a small tree with gray-white bark, which can grow up to 10 m tall.
Branchlets are sparsely hairy when young. Leaf stalks are 1.5-3 cm long,
with a leaf blade which is round or broadly ovate, 5-8 cm across. The
leaves are thickly papery, hairy, base heart-shaped, margin toothed, apex
obtuse or acute. Inflorescence is cyme-like, at the end pf branches or in
leaf axils, up to 9 cm. Flower stalks are shorter than flowers. Flowers are
yellow, 3-5 cm long, with 5 linear sepals and 5 oblong petals. Petals are
turned backwards between the sepals. A dense tuft of stamens, as long as
petals, comes out of the flowers. Capsule long ellipsoid, 3-4.5 × 2.5 cm,
5-10 valved. The species name quinquelocularis means 5 valved.
Flowering: May-July.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed enroute to Rajgad, Maharashtra & Dholpur, Rajasthan. |
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