| Oleander-Leaf Lantern Flower |
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| File size | 526202 |
| Original date | 2/7/24 3:18 PM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 146.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Agapetes neriifolia Family: Ericaceae (Blueberry family)
Synonyms: Desmogyne minor
Synonyms: Desmogyne minor
Oleander-Leaf Lantern Flower is a tree-dwelling shrub
with twigs weakly angled, 1.5-5 mm in diameter. Flowers are borne in
corymbs, 1.5-2.5 cm, 5-10-flowered. Flowers are dull crimson with a
bluish bloom, with dark zig-zag bands, tubular, about 4 cm; petals
triangular, about 2 mm. Sepal-cup is crimson, broadly bell-shaped; tube
obconical, about 2 mm; limb inflated, about 1.5 cm wide, undivided.
Filaments about 3 mm, hairless; anthers about 3.3 cm. Flower-stalks are
1.5-3 cm, enlarged into a cup at tip. Leaves are scattered; leaf-stalk
1-2 mm; leaf blade drying grayish on both surfaces, oblong-lanceshaped,
5-10 x 1.5-2 cm, leathery, base rounded, margin curled, entire, with 1
prominent basal gland per side, tip long tapering. Oleander-Leaf
Lantern Flower is found in forests, dwelling on trees, at altitudes of
about 1200 m, in NE India, Myanmar to China. Flowering:
March-September.
| Identification credit: Vinay Kumar Sahani | Photographed in Vijay Nagar, Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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