| Hairy Wild Grape |
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| File size | 230618 |
| Original date | 7/20/14 12:23 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 20.0 |
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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: Ampelocissus tomentosa Family: Vitaceae (Grape family)
Synonyms: Vitis tomentosa
Synonyms: Vitis tomentosa
Hairy Wild Grape is a climbing shrub with
branchlets and leaves densely woolly. Leaves are 15 x 15 cm, broadly
ovate, 3-5-lobed, lobes acute, base heart-shaped, toothed, densely
floccose beneath, basally 5-nerved, tendrils branched; stalk up to 6
cm, floccose. Flowers are bonre in many branched cymes, carried on
stalks up to 7 cm. Flowers are 5-merous, reddish, sepals 1 mm,
triangular, woolly, petals 2 mm, ovate, hairless, disc prominent;
stamens 5; ovary conical, stigma sessile. Hairy Wild Grape is found in
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
| Identification credit: Ganesh Babu, Anurag Sharma | Photographed at Taralu Estate, Bangalore. |
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