| Syrian Mustard |
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| File size | 293772 |
| Original date | 5/31/12 8:29 AM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 35.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSLR-A100 |
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Botanical name: Euclidium syriacum Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Bunias syriaca, Anastatica syriaca
Synonyms: Bunias syriaca, Anastatica syriaca
Syrian Mustard is a spreading to erect annual herb,
branched from base, rough with branched hairs. Lower leaves have up to
2 cm long leaf-stalks, upper stalkless, oblong-elliptic to lanceshaped,
2-8 cm long, margin entire or wavy-toothed. Flowers are hardly 1.5 mm
across, white, in spike-like racemes; flower-stalk hardly 1 mm long;
sepals about 0.7-0.9 mm long. Petals are narrowly spoon-shaped, 1.5 mm
long; fruit an ovoid silicula, 2-2.5 mm long, 2-seeded, scabrous, tip
narrowed, curved away from axis. Syrian Mustard is a weed of saffron
fields, road sides and on dry ground in wastelands in Kashmir. it is
native to SE Europe to India.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Hazuri Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
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