| Goose Weed |
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| File size | 364652 |
| Original date | 3/15/15 6:51 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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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: Sphenoclea zeylanica Family: Sphenocleaceae (Goose Weed family)
Synonyms: Pongatium indicum, Rapinia herbacea
Synonyms: Pongatium indicum, Rapinia herbacea
Goose Weed is a branched annual herb, growing up to
1.5 m tall with hollow stems. Roots are fibrous, white to brown.
Leaves are lanceshaped, narrowly ovate to elliptic, up to 12 x 5 cm,
hairless, margin entire, stalk up to 1.5 cm long. Flowers are borne in
conical-cylindric spikes up to 12 cm long. Flowers very small, white,
greenish or pink yellow. Fruit is a capsule, 4-5 mm in diameter,
splitting below the sepals, leaving the base attached to the rhachis.
Goose Weed inhabits wet places near pools, pans, irrigation channels,
swamps and floodplains. It is found in S and SE Asia and Africa.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Puzhal Chennai, Tamil Nadu. |
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