| Long-Stalk Kadsura |
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| Original date | 6/4/16 1:20 PM |
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| Focal length | 108.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ40 |
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Botanical name: Kadsura longipedunculata Family: Schisandraceae (Magnolia vine family)
Synonyms: Kadsura discigera, Kadsura omeiensis, Kadsura peltigera
Synonyms: Kadsura discigera, Kadsura omeiensis, Kadsura peltigera
Long-Stalk Kadsura is a climbing shrub which is
hairless throughout. Leaf-stalk is 0.6-1.7 cm; leaf blade elliptic to
rarely ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 5.5-12 x 2-4.5 cm, papery to
leathery, secondary veins 4-8 on each side of midvein, base
wedge-shaped to rarely broadly wedge-shaped, margin nearly entire,
finely toothed, minutely toothed, or sawtoothed, tip shortly to long
tapering. Flower-cluster-stalk is prominently long, 1.2-4-6.4 cm
(male), 3-5-16 cm (female). Tepals are 10-15, pale yellow, yellow, or
occasionally reddish, largest 4-7 x 3-6 mm. Male flowers have stamens
26-54; staminodes absent. Femail flowers have carpels 20-58. Fruiting
stalk is 2.5-9.5 cm; apocarps red, purple, or rarely black, 6.5-11.5 x
4.5-6.5 mm. Seeds are 1-3 per apocarp, kidney-shaped, 3.5-4.5 x 4.5-6
mm. Flowering: June-September.
Medicinal uses:
Long-Stalk Kadsura is used
medicinally and the fruit is edible.
Medicinal uses:
Long-Stalk Kadsura is used
medicinally and the fruit is edible. | Identification credit: Navendu Pagé | Photographed in Pelling, Sikkim. |
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