| Cherry-Bark Elm |
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| Original date | 2/26/21 8:45 PM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Ulmus villosa Family: Ulmaceae (Elm family)
Synonyms: Ulmus laevigata
Synonyms: Ulmus laevigata
Cherry-Bark Elm is a medium to large tree. Branches
are more or less drooping, minutely velvet-hairy. Leaves are
ovate-oblong to elliptic, up to 10 x 5 cm, pointed to subtapering, base
subequal, upper surface smooth, hairless to nearly hairless, lower
surface slightly velvet-hairy with scattered elongated glandular
reddish hairs, sometimes with white hairy clusters in axils of nerves
in old leaves, uniformly bisawtoothed with 3-5-7 secondary teeth.
Inflorescence in dense. stalkless fascicles. Flowers nearly stalkless
perianth tube elongating after flowering. Perianth lobes 5, ovate,
blunt, upper margin toothed or laciniate, fringed with hairs with
simple and elongated club-shaped red glandular hairs. Stamens 3-4;
filaments longer than perianth. Ovary and style densely hairy.
Cherry-Bark Elm is from N. Pakistan to W. Himalaya, Kashmir anf
Himachal Pradesh. Flowering: February-April.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Bajaura, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh. |
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