| Para Cress Flower |
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| File size | 130052 |
| Original date | 8/16/08 4:43 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/236s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Blainvillea acmella Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Spilanthes acmella, Blainvillea latifolia, Eclipta latifolia
Synonyms: Spilanthes acmella, Blainvillea latifolia, Eclipta latifolia
Annual Para Cress is an erect herb, 1–4 ft high. Stems hardly to much
branched, bristly-hairy. Leaves are elliptic to ovate, to 12 cm long, to 8
cm wide, base wedge-shaped, margins serrate-crenate, tip sharp, 3-veined
from base, bristly-hairy. Flower heads are slightly elongated bell-shaped.
The green part is 1 cm long. Ray florets are whitish, 3–5 in number,
irregularly 3-parted, 1–1.6 mm long. Disc florets whitish, 5-parted, 3.6
mm long. Achenes are narrowly obovoid, 3–5 mm long - pappus of 1–3 weak
bristles to 1 mm long, on the edge of a shallow cup. Para Cress Flower
is found in Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Queensland. It is also found
in West Himalaya. Flowering: August.
| Identification credit: Navendu Pāgé | Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi. |
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