| Giant Red Rotala |
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| Original date | 3/16/13 8:18 AM |
| Resolution | 3264 x 2448 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Photo: Prashant Awale |
Botanical name: Rotala macrandra Family: Lythraceae (Crape Myrtle family)
Giant Red Rotala is a creeping or diffuse herb, rooting at lower nodes,
branches ascending, and reddish stem. It is abundant in damp and marshy
places. Oppositely arranged leaves are stalkless, ovate, tip blunt, base
nearly heart-shaped. Small pinkish flowers occur in spike-like racemes,
either at the end of branches or from leaf axil. Bracts large, leafy, in
opposite pairs, closely arranged; bracteoles minute. Sepals 4, 2 mm long.
Petals 4, free, attached to sepal tube, alternating with the sepals, less
than 1 mm long; stigma thickened. In the West, Giant Red Rotala is popular
as an aquarium plant. Flowering:January.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed in Maharashtra. |
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