| Velvety Bush-Violet |
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| File size | 640903 |
| Original date | 10/25/15 3:53 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 6.4 |
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| Metering Mode | Average |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Barleria tomentosa Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Barleria paniculata, Barleria tomentosa var. glandulosa
Synonyms: Barleria paniculata, Barleria tomentosa var. glandulosa
Velvety Bush-Violet is a shrub, with branchlets
velvet-hairy. Leaves are 4-6 x 2-3 cm, ovate, tip tapering, base
pointed, woolly below; leaf-stalk to 3 cm. Flowers are nearly stalkless
in short in leaf-axils racemes; bracts spoon-shaped; sepals 4, to 1.5 x
0.7 cm, nearly equal, obovate. Flowers are 3 mm across, salviform,
pink, tube up to 7 cm; stamens 2. Capsule 4-seeded; seed hairy. Velvety
Bush-Violet is endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: December-March.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh. |
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