| Spiny Leaved Blumea |
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| File size | 509125 |
| Original date | 1/16/11 9:46 AM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1350 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Blumea oxyodonta Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Spiny Leaved Blumea is an annual herb with slender whitish hairy stem, which
is often forked. The branches are spreading or prostrate. Alternately
arranged obovate leaves, 5-5.5 x 1.5-2 cm, have spinous-toothed margin, and a
spiny-tip. Leaf stalk are up to 1 cm long. Leaves on the branches 1 x 0.5 cm,
nearly stalkless, densely white-woolly. Yellowish flower-heads, to 6 mm
across, on long peduncles, arise in leaf axilsy, either solitary or in
corymb-like cymes. Spiny Leaved Blumea is found in the Indian Subcontinent
to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China. It is found in Eastern Himalaya, at
altitudes of 1200-1700 m. Flowering: January.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Maharashtra. |
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