| Mountain Cassia |
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| File size | 544892 |
| Original date | 10/24/15 4:22 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 22.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Average |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Senna montana Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Synonyms: Cassia montana B. Heyne ex Roth, Cassia setigera
Synonyms: Cassia montana B. Heyne ex Roth, Cassia setigera
Mountain Cassia is a large shrub to small tree,
with young shoots yellow woolly. Leaves are compound, up to 18 cm long;
leaflets oblong, blunt with a tiny point; base rounded, up to 3 x 1.2
cm. Flowers are 2.5 cm across, yellow, in short corymb-like panicles,
in leaf-axils and at branch-ends. Petals are obovate. Stamens 10, upper
3 staminodes. Pod is compressed, beaked; seeds about 20, ovoid,
longitudinal. Mountain Cassia is found in Peninsular India.
Flowering: November-January,
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh. |
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