| Pig's Head |
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| File size | 610507 |
| Original date | 10/5/10 3:18 PM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 40.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 3.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Carpesium abrotanoides Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Pig's Head is a herb with 50-100 cm long, stout, round, leafy stem, much
branched. Lower stem leaves are thin, broadly elliptic to oblong, 20-28 cm
long, 8.5-15 cm broad, tip blunt to pointed, narrowed at base into a
broadly winged leaf-stalk. Margins are irregularly toothed. Upper leaves
are oblong, stalkless, gradually smaller, pointed. Flower-heads are many,
6-8 mm broad, stalkless, deflexed in anthesis. The cup at the base of the
flower-head is bellshaped-round. Florets are 130-300 - outer ones
cylindric, 1.5-0.5 mm, central ones 2.5 mm long. Seed capsules are 3.5 mm
long, beak about 0.7 mm long. Pig's Head is native to East Asia, naturalized in parts of Himalayas, including Kashmir.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. |
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