| Spotted Sterculia |
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| File size | 122986 |
| Original date | 12/16/07 1:29 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 533 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D40X |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Sterculia guttata Family: Sterculiaceae (Cacao family)
Spotted Sterculia is a tree with a straight trunk. Leaves are hairless
above, velvety beneath, oblong-ovate acute or acuminate. Leaf base is
rounded or nearly heart-shaped. Flower panicles are sparingly branched.
Flower-buds are spherical. Flowers are chiefly male. Sepal tube 1/3 inches
densely rusty hairy outside, glandular within, bell-shaped, divided into 5;
segments broadly ovate-acute, ultimately reflexed, covered with long hairs.
Flowers are yellow, with purple glands on the inside of the petals.
Anthers 12, Ovary stalked, spherical, 3-5-lobed. Style curved, stigma 3-5
lobed. Follicles 1-5, size of a small apple, each about 3 inches, obovoid,
covered with reddish down, smooth, pink within.
Flowering: December.
| Identification credit: Pravin Kawale | Photographed in Maharashtra. |
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