Question & Identification

[Vinay Thite]

The length of ray floret.

In my photo of Ray floret, the blade is 15 mm, and the floret stalk is 7 mm. So, the ray floret length is 22 mm or 15mm? This information is important to distinguish between four candidates, namely Delairea odorata, Senecio angulatus, Senecio tamoides, and Senecio macroglossus.

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Kindly identify this plant.

Date/Time- 15 FEB 2021

Location-Place, Altitude, GPS- Bengaluru

Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Balcony Garden

Plant Habit-Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Climber

Height/Length- Grown up to 100 cm tall.

Flowers are not fragrant. Most of the flowers have five ray florets. 

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The yellow flowers are difficult to identify.

My reasoning:

My flower has five ray florets. So, it cannot be Delairea odorata (no ray florets).   

 

The ray floret blade length is 15 mm. It is medium. So, it cannot neither be a small blade (6-9 mm) flower of Senecio angulatus nor be a large blade (>20mm) flower of Senecio macroglossus.

So, by eliminating all the possibilities one can safely reason out that the flower is Senecio tamoides.

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Other observations from 'Comparison' photo.

The flower in question has bracts longer and not curling away. There is a presence of pappus between the bract whorl and ray floret whorl.

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Now I invite all experts to confirm the flower. 

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Vinay Thite

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Vinay ji.

Pl. also post the habit and leaf images. 

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With regards,
J.M.Garg

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Vinay ji

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With regards,
J. M. Garg

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From: Vinay Thite <thi...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb, 2021, 5:56 pm
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:375405] Question & Identification
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>

Attaching two more photos. 

This plant is in our balcony. 

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Vinay Thite

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Vinay ji.

Yes, identified as such earlier at Identification

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With regards,
J.M.Garg

[J.M. Garg]

Yes, Vinay ji

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With regards,
J. M. Garg

On Thu, 25 Feb, 2021, 4:36 pm Vinay Thite, <thi...@gmail.com> wrote:

So it is indeed Senecio tamoides.