| Birch-Leaved Cat Tail |
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| File size | 751637 |
| Original date | 7/10/15 10:18 AM |
| Resolution | 2106 x 1580 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 300.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Acalypha fruticosa Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Acalypha betulina, Acalypha paxiana
Synonyms: Acalypha betulina, Acalypha paxiana
Birch-Leaved Cat Tail is an erect, profusely
branched shrub. Leaves are 2-5 x 1-3 cm, ovate, base flat or somewhat
heart-shaped, margin rounded-toothed, sawtoothed, tip tapering, hairy
on both sides, aromatic, glandular below, glands orange. Leaf-stalks
are up to 3 cm long. Flowers are borne in short spiked in leaf-axils,
solitary, androgynous, up to 2 cm long. Tepals woolly, with stalkless
glands outside. Stamens many; anthers sub-spherical to oblong. Female
flowers are stalkless, bracts kidney-shaped, margin toothed, ovary to
0.5 mm across; styles many. Capsules is trilobed. Birch-Leaved Cat Tail
is globally distributed in Tropical Africa to India, Myanmar and Sri
Lanka. Flowering: July-August .
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Thiruvalam, Vellore Dist, Tamil Nadu. |
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