| Chinese Eagle Claw |
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| File size | 133679 |
| Original date | 5/25/13 5:37 PM |
| Resolution | 984 x 738 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 63.9mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Desmos chinensis Family: Annonaceae (Sugar-apple family)
Synonyms: Unona chinensis, Desmos lawii, Unona lawii
Synonyms: Unona chinensis, Desmos lawii, Unona lawii
Chinese Eagle Claw is a climber or a spreading
shrub with young shoots silky velvety. Leaves are
9-13 x 3-4 cm, ovate-oblong, tip pointed acute, base rounded, glaucous
below, nerves 8 pairs. Flowers arise singly in leaf axils, looking like
hanging claws of an eagle.
Flower-stalks are 2-4 cm long, slender, bracteate. Sepals are up to 9 x
6 mm, obovate, softly haory, yellowish green. Petals are in 2 series, 5-7
x 0.5 cm, linear-oblong, softly hairy, stamens 1 mm long; ovaries many,
densely hairy, stigma spherical, red. Fruitlets are up to 7 x 6 mm,
globose-oblong, stipitate, beaked, seeds globose, stipe 1 cm long, slender.
Chinese Eagle Claw is found in S. China to Tropical Asia, including
Western Ghats and East Himalaya.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed at Ulavi, Karnataka. |
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