| Konkan Kalanchoe |
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| File size | 418191 |
| Original date | 1/31/20 2:31 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Kalanchoe bhidei Family: Crassulaceae (Sedum family)
Konkan Kalanchoe is a perennial, erect, fleshy herb,
70-100 cm tall, stem round, yellow-reddish in color, hairless. Leaves
are simple, opposite, ovate-oblong, 9-11 x 4-5 cm, blunt at tip,
narrowed at base, sawtoothed along margins; leaf-stalk 1-2 cm long.
Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in panicle-like spreading cymes,
18-22 x 13-17 cm. Flowers are bisexual, 4-merous, 12-14 x 3-4 mm,
whitish-pink in colour, stalked, flower-stalks 8-10 mm long. Sepals are
free, 3-4 x 1-2 mm, linear-lanceshaped, tapering at tip, broader at
base, greenish-pink. Flower are whitish-pink, 1.3-1.4 x 0.6-0.7 cm,
tubular, 4-lobed at tip; petals are 4-4.5 x 1.8-2 mm, oblong, with a
short sharp point at tip. Stamens are 8, arranged in two rows,
filaments 2-3 mm long. Konkan Kalanchoe is endemic to Western Ghats.
Flowering: January-March.
| Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Maharashtra. |
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