| Mattress Button Plant |
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| File size | 773372 |
| Original date | 10/3/26 11:08 AM |
| Resolution | 320 x 240 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.74mm |
| Exposure time | 1/55s |
| Aperture | 1.79 |
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| Metering Mode | Average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 10 Lite |
| Sensor type | MonochromeArea |
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Botanical name: Dorstenia bahiensis Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)
Mattress Button Plant is a herb up to 50 cm tall,
with leafy stem erect or rising up, up to 25 cm long, 6-12 mm thick,
hairless. Flower-bearing stalks are 5-15 cm long, carrying disc-like
to broadly top-shaped receptacle, centrally attached, 1-3 cm in
diameter, green to slightly purplish-brown outside, flowering face dark
purple to purplish-brown, initially downward-facing, later
upward-facing; margin lobed to rounded-toothed. Bracts are in 2 rows,
up to 2 mm long. Staminate flowers intermixed with pistillate; tepals
2; stamens 2; stigmas 0.3-0.4 mm long. Leaves are spirally arranged,
initially rosette-like; blades elliptic to lanceshaped, 9-27 x 3-12 cm,
papery, hairless, tip pointed, base heart-shaped to rounded or flat,
margin finely rounded-toothed to wavy; lateral veins 9-12 pairs,
loop-connected. Leaf-stalks are 10-21 cm long; stipules somewhat ovate
to triangular, 0.5-1 cm long. Endocarp body is about 2 x 1.5 mm, warty.
Mattress Button Plant is native to Brazil, cultivated in India as a
garden plant.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in cultivation in Manipur. |
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