| Drooping Golden Daisy |
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| File size | 124571 |
| Original date | 2/4/07 2:39 PM |
| Resolution | 1632 x 1224 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 6.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 3.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-P52 |
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Botanical name: Vicoa cernua Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Inula dalzellii, Pentanema cernuum, Vicoa gokhalei
Synonyms: Inula dalzellii, Pentanema cernuum, Vicoa gokhalei
Drooping Golden Daisy is an annual, erect herb, 1-6 ft tall,
velvet-hairy. Flower-heads are 1.2-1.8 cm across, golden, drooping, in
sparse corymbs, carried on slender flower-cluster-stalks. Ray florets
are 20-40, blade yellow, linear, longer than involucre, tip 3-toothed.
Phyllaries are linear, apiculate, velvet-hairy; outer ones scale-like.
Leaf-stalks are very short; leaf blade oblong-lanceshaped,
5-7.5 × 2-2.5 cm, both surfaces shortly velvet-hairy, base narrower,
margin shallowly minutely toothed or toothed, rarely entire, tip pointed
or tapering. Seedpods are oblong, about 0.6 mm, sparsely velvet-hairy.
Pappus of disk florets few, brown, 3-4 mm. Drooping Golden Daisy is
found on grassy slopes, at altitudes of about 1500 m, from Nepal to
East Himalaya, China South-Central, Thailand, and Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Navendu Pagé, Tabish | Photographed at Vasota fort & Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra. |
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