| Kenyan Dragon Flower |
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| File size | 135368 |
| Original date | 2/16/14 1:25 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 7.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/767s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E5200 |
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Botanical name: Huernia lenewtonii Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Ceropegia lenewtonii
Synonyms: Ceropegia lenewtonii
Kenyan Dragon Flower is a tropical, fleshy plant with
5-angled grey-green stems with some red mottling, up to 12 cm long and
up to 1 cm thick. Leaf rudiments are triangular, 3-4 mm long. Flowers
are reddish to purplish, up to 2.5 cm in diameter, star-shaped with a
distinctive ten-pointed flower. Inflorescences are 2- to 3-flowered.
Flower-stalks are erect, 1.5-2.5 cm long, bent below calyx to present
the flowers vertically. Sepals are narrowly triangular, 4-5 mm long,
pointed. Flowers are greenish yellow outside, inside bright ruby-red,
broadly funnel-shaped with horizontally spreading petals. Petals are
broadly triangular, about 1.0 x 1.5 cm, tapering, below prominently
5-veined. Corona is ruby-red; interstaminal corona lobes fused into a
fleshy, rounded toothed disc. Fruits are mericarps two, 8-12 cm long,
spindle-shaped, stout. Kenyan Dragon Flower is native to Kenya,
cultivated elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Aarti Khale | Photographed in cultivation in Nasik. |
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