| Joy Weed |
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| File size | 1014862 |
| Original date | 12/17/06 3:19 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/347s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
| Sensor type |
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Botanical name: Alternanthera brasiliana Family: Amaranthaceae (Amaranth family)
Synonyms: Gomphrena brasiliana, Gomphrena dentata
Synonyms: Gomphrena brasiliana, Gomphrena dentata
Joy Weed comes from the moist, open forest areas of in tropical and sub
tropical Central and South America. It is a plant grown for its dark purple
leaves. It is an annual or perennial herb, 50-60 cm, with stems erect,
hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves are stalkless, ovate to lanceshaped,
1-7 x 0.7-1 cm, herbaceous, hairy. Flowers are borne in stalked, white,
spherical heads at branch-ends and in leaf-axils, 0.7-1 cm in diamter.
Bracts are keeled, shorter than to equaling tepals.
Joy Weed is naturalized in NE India.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi & Imphal, Manipur. |
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