| Blue-Flowered Rattlepod |
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| File size | 273165 |
| Original date | 1/1/13 10:52 PM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Crotalaria heyneana Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Blue-Flowered Rattlepod is an undershrub up to 40 cm
tall, with hairless branchlets and simple elliptic-lanceshaped leaves.
Leaves pointed tip, margin entire, base wedge-shaped, membranous,
hairless. Flowers are whitish blue, in racemes up to 5 cm long, at the
end branches. Sepals are 5, up to 1 cm long. Flowers are shaped like
pea-flowers, with white standard and blue wings. Wings equal calyx or
are slightly longer. Seed-pod is oblong, 10 seeded. Blue-Flowered Rattlepod
is found in S and SW India.
| Identification credit: Navendu Pagé | Photographed at Yana Rocks, Karnataka. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,