| Five Leaf Rattlepod |
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| File size | 143087 |
| Original date | 9/28/09 8:42 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria quinquefolia Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Five Leaf Rattlepod is a coarse erect branching herb 1-2 m tall. Stems are
greenish and grooved. Leaves are long-petiolate, usually with 5 (rarely 7)
leaflets. The leaflets are lanceshaped, elliptic, stalkless, 2.5-12 cm long
and 2 cm wide, blunt-tipped. Flowers are in borne in raceme, at the end opf
branches. They are yellow, the standard-petal purplish nerved. Sepal cup is
hairless, half as long as the petals. Pod are oblong, hairless, inflated,
about 5 cm long, brownish, with 30-40 seeds.
Identification credit: Rashida Atthar & Santhosh Kumar
| Photographed near Colva Beach, Goa. |