| Himalayan Madden-Cherry |
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| File size | 647143 |
| Original date | 5/3/17 1:42 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Prunus himalayana Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Maddenia himalaica
Synonyms: Maddenia himalaica
Himalayan Madden-Cherry is a shrub or tree 1-10 m
tall, twigs thinly or densely brown woolly, inner bud scales
ovate-elliptic up to 1.5 x 0.7cm. Leaves are ovate or elliptic, 4-12 x
2-5cm, tapering, base rounded or shallowly heart-shaped, margins
pectinately sawtoothed, teeth capitate-glandular in lower half, veins
12-15 pairs, hairless or densely brown velvet-hairy on veins beneath,
nearly stalkless or leaf-stalks up to 5mm; stipules oblong-lanceshaped
1.5-2 x 0.2-0.5cm. Flowers are borne in racemes 10-20-flowered,
receptacular cup 4-5mm, green tinged crimson. Sepals and petals are
narrowly lanceshaped, small, 3-4 x 0.75-1 mm, velvet-hairy. Stamens are
cream-coloured 5-8 mm. Ovary and style hairless, 7-10 mm. Drupes are
ellipsoid, 8-10 x 6-8 mm, crimson. Himalayan Madden-Cherry is found in
NE India, Bhutan, Nepal, at altitudes of 2800-4200 m. Flowering:
April-May.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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