| Sticky Indigo |
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| File size | 657337 |
| Original date | 8/8/15 5:11 PM |
| Resolution | 2000 x 1500 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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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 colutea Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Indigofera viscosa, Indigofera multifoliata, Indigofera glutinosa
Synonyms: Indigofera viscosa, Indigofera multifoliata, Indigofera glutinosa
Sticky Indigo is am erect or spreading herb, annual
or short-lived perennial, velvet-hairy, hairs biramous and also
multicellular, glandular. Leaves are imparipinnately compound,
leaf-stalk about 1.2 cm long, axis up to 6 cm long. Leaflets 7-11,
about 7-14 mm long, about 3-4 mm broad, elliptic-oblong, blunt,
apiculate, appressly velvet-hairy on both sides. Flowers are borne in
stalked racemes in leaf-axils, flower-cluster-stalk up to 7-12 mm long.
Calyx is about 2.5 mm long, velvet-hairy, teeth about 1.25 mm long.
Flower are pink, vexillum about 4 0-4.5 mm long. Fruit about 1.8-2.6 cm
long, velvet-hairy, hairs appressed as well as gland-tipped. Sticky
Indigo is found in Africa, India, SE Asia and Australia. Flowering:
April-December.
| Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Ranipet, Tamil Nadu. |
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