| Five-Leaf Indigo |
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| File size | 541750 |
| Original date | 7/22/16 2:31 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 14.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Indigofera glabra Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Indigofera fragrans, Indigofera pentaphylla, Anil glabra
Synonyms: Indigofera fragrans, Indigofera pentaphylla, Anil glabra
Five-Leaf Indigo is an annual spreafing herb; stems
many, sparsely hairy all over, often reddish. Flowers are borne in
leaf-axils, in 2-5-flowered racemes, carried on flower-cluster-stalks
which are capillary, 0.7-2 cm long. Flowers are about 5 mm long,
reddish. Petals are reddish-pink; standard 3-3.5 mm long. Sepal-cup is
about 2 mm long, velvet-hairy; lobes bristly. Leaves are compound with
3-7 leaflets, but most often 5, opposite, 5-15 x 3-10 mm, elliptic to
nearly round or obovate, base rounded to pointed, tip blunt,
velvet-hairy on both surfaces; stipules about 5 mm long, needle-shaped,
fringed with hairs. Pods are1.5-2 cm long, about 1.5 mm diam., linear,
somewhat tetragonous, 8-12-seeded. Five-Leaf Indigo is native to India
to Indo-China.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. |
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