| Elongate Marigold |
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| File size | 636122 |
| Original date | 1/4/20 3:53 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 49.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX A900 |
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Botanical name: Tagetes elongata Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Tagetes tenuifolia Kunth, Tagetes corymbosa
Synonyms: Tagetes tenuifolia Kunth, Tagetes corymbosa
Elongate Marigold is a slender hairless annual herb
with stem 1-2 ft tall, round, branched. Leaves are pinnate, 5-7 cm.
long, the lower opposite, the upper alternate; leaflets 9-17,
linear-inverted-lanceshaped or inverted-lanceshaped, or of the lower
leaves wedge-shaped, 1-2 cm. long, with salient teeth; teeth of the
upper leaves usually bristle-tipped. Flower-heads are borne in open
leafy cymes, with flower-cluster-stalks 5-10 cm. long. Involucre is
often tinged with purple, elongate-bell-shaped, about 1.2 cm long and 6
mm broad. Ligules are about 1 cm long, 6 mm wide, notched. Disk-flowers
are about 6 mm long, hairless. Elongate Marigold is native to Tropical
America, cultivated in NE India, Burma, Nepal, among other places.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in cultivation in Imphal, Manipur. |
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