| Travancore Pearly Everlasting |
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| File size | 544807 |
| Original date | 2/28/17 11:37 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Anaphalis travancorica Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Travancore Pearly Everlasting is a perennial herb
bearing clusters of small white flower-heads. Leaves are 5-6 x 1 cm,
elliptic to inverted-lanceshaped, tip pointed, dense wooly.
Flower-heads are about 6 mm across, white with yellowish centre, borne
in corymbs at branch-ends. Bisexual flowers are plenty, central; flower
broader; female flowers are 30-40; flower tube 3 mm, slender, hairless.
Achenes are 1 mm, brown, papillose; pappus 3 mm long. Travancore Pearly
Everlasting is endemic to Southern Western Ghats. Flowering:
September-February.
| Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,