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Siam weed |
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| Halbi Name | Hawai lata |
Main Photo of The Weed |
| Vernacular name | Siam weeds | |
| Scientific name | Chromolaena odorata Linn. | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Spreading type, profusely branching, perennial shrub, which reaches a height of 3 m in open field and 8 m in forest stems are succulent when young producing characteristic smell upon crushing which becomes woody at maturity. | |
| Leaves | Alternate, margin | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Tiny in auxiliary with whitish colour in branch, | |
| Fruit/ seed | Fusiform, overtopped by pappus capillary bristles, brown to black, longitudinal ribbed | |
| Habitat and distribution | Railways, wasteland, roadsides etc. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | November to February | |
| Associated with | Wasteland, forest flora | |
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