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| Original date | 5/17/07 2:10 PM |
| Resolution | 2592 x 1944 |
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| Focal length | 5.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-S650 |
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Botanical name: Galinsoga parviflora Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Tridax parviflora
Synonyms: Tridax parviflora
Quick Weed is a slender annual herb 20-70 cm tall,
found mostly in NE India. Leaves ovate or narrowly ovate, 2-5 cm long,
1-3 cm wide, margins minutely toothed or entire. Flower-heads 3-4 mm
high, flower-cluster-stalks appressed velvet-hairy or glandular hairy;
involucral bracts 2-3 mm long; ray florets white, 5 per head, rarely pink,
3-toothed, 1-2 mm long; pappus of ray florets absent or very reduced,
that of disk florets consisting of blunt-tipped, fringed scales. Achenes
sparsely appressed velvet-hairy or hairless. Quick Weed is native to
South America, widely naturalized all over the world.
Medicinal uses:
In Manipur, extract of leaves with salt is given in
fever, diarrhoea and vomitting. Leaves of this plant, along with those of
Ageratum conyzoides, Drymaria cordata, ginger are made into a paste
and applied as a remedy for snake-bite by the Khasis and Jaintias of
Meghalaya.
Medicinal uses:
In Manipur, extract of leaves with salt is given in
fever, diarrhoea and vomitting. Leaves of this plant, along with those of
Ageratum conyzoides, Drymaria cordata, ginger are made into a paste
and applied as a remedy for snake-bite by the Khasis and Jaintias of
Meghalaya.| Identification credit: Debasish Joardar, Latha | Photographed in Imphal, Manipur & Manali, Himachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,