| Heart-Leaf Indigo |
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| File size | 263851 |
| Original date | 9/17/07 9:43 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1360 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-P52 |
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Botanical name: Indigofera cordifolia Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Heart-Leaf Indigo is a prostrate annual herb, with branched, velvet-hairy
stem, 8 to 15 cm. Unlike many other Indigofera species, this plant has
simple leaves, to 6-16 mm long, 4-13 mm broad, nearly stalkless, broadly
ovate, heart-shaped, obtuse tipped, ending in a sharp point. Leaves are
velvet-hairy on both sides. Inflorescence is a nearly stalkless, 4-8
flowered head. Sepal tube is 3-3.5 mm long, hairy; sepals linear, densely
hairy. Flowers bright red, pea-shaped. Fruit 4-5 mm long, oblong, densely
pubescent, 2-seeded, rarely 1-seeded.
Flowering: August-October.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed in Nagpur. |
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