| Hairy Fruit Milk-Vetch |
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| File size | 365954 |
| Original date | 3/25/08 5:30 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 27.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 15.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Astragalus trichocarpus Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Astragalus sesbanoides
Synonyms: Astragalus sesbanoides
Hairy Fruit Milk-Vetch is an erect plant, several feet tall, velvety.
Leaves are compound, about 5-11 cm long, with 21-41 leaflets. Leaflets are
tiny, 3-10 mm long, oblong, blunt, velvety, hairs minute, silvery. Flowers
are borne in 5-20 cm long stalked racemes. Bracts are linear, minute.
Flower-stalk is short, velvety, hairs black and white. Sepal tube is about 2.5-4.0 mm long, hairless, teeth deltoid. Standard petal is 9-13 mm long.
Wing is shorter than keel. Fruit is about 1.9-2.2 cm long, bilocular, 4-6
seeded, stipe longer than calyx. Hairy Fruit Milk-Vetch is found in the
Himalayas, N. Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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