| Miniature Pine Tree |
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| File size | 160783 |
| Original date | 5/13/16 5:56 PM |
| Resolution | 980 x 735 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 7.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P530 |
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Botanical name: Crassula tetragona Family: Crassulaceae (Sedum family)
Miniature Pine Tree is an evergreen fleshy plant up
to 1 m tall. The narrow, almost needle-like foliage and sparsely
branched, shrubby, tree-like habit of this plant have inspired the
rather misleading name miniature pine. The apple-green, awl-shaped
leaves occur in well-spaced pairs along fleshy upright stems that can
reach waist height. Stem is woody with brown bark. Dense clusters of
small creamy-white flowers appear at the branch tips in spring and
summer. Crassula are generally started by division, offsets or leaf
cuttings. Plants can be easily propagated from a single leaf: sprout
leaves by placing them into a fleshy or cacti mix, then covering the
dish until they sprout. Miniature Pine Tree is native to South Africa,
cultivated in gardens elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Anil Thakur | Photographed in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
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