Xanthium has a very interesting mode of dispersal. The sticky dry
fruits get attached to long hairs of cattles feeding around and the
cattles carry them far.-Sibdas Ghosh
On Nov 13, 10:12 pm, Akramul Hoque <
ulu_bot_i...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dear friend,
> I 'm agree with you regarding id.
> It possess homogamous capitulum, cypsella fruit, Here frt possess numerous prickles with bended tip----for dissemination of the frts.
>
> Akram
>
> Debasish Joardar <
djoardar1...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Hi Friends,
>
> Photographed at Bhadreshwar, Hooghly, West Bengal on 11/11/2007.
>
> Is it Xanthium strumarium, Family- Asteraceae?
>
> Kindly confirm the identification.
>
> Thanking you,
>
> Debasish Joardar.
>
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