| Five-Finger Wild Grape |
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| Original date | 8/27/24 3:39 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 30.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/640s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Cissus elongata Family: Vitaceae (Grape family)
Synonyms: Vitis elongata, Cayratia elongata
Synonyms: Vitis elongata, Cayratia elongata
Five-Finger Wild Grape is a large woody climber with
branchlets nearly round, with prominent, longitudinal ridges, hairless.
Leaves are digitately compound with 5 leaflets. Leaf-stalk is 6-10 cm
long, leaflet blade obovate-lanceshaped or obovate-elliptic, 5-15 x
2-5 cm, hairless, lateral veins 5-9 pairs, base wedge-shaped, margin
with 7-9 fine teeth on each side, tip cuspidate. Flowers are borne in
compound cymes, pseudo-branch-ends or leaf-opposed;
flower-cluster-stalk 1.5-2 cm, hairless. Petals are ovate-elliptic,
1.5-2.5 mm, hairless. Sepal-cup is wavy at margin. Flower-stalks are
2-4 mm, hairless. Buds are elliptic, 2-3 mm, tip somewhat rounded.
Berries are purple-black at maturity, 1.5-2 x 1-1.5 cm, 1-seeded.
Flowering: June-July. Five-Finger Wild Grape is found in forests,
streamsides, at altitudes of 100-1100 m, in China, Bhutan, India,
Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, including Western Ghats and East
Himalaya.
| Identification credit: Prasad Gavade, Rajvardhan Pandit | Photographed in Dapoli, Maharashtra. |
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