Crassocephalum crepidioides

 
Thickhead, Fireweed, Redflower ragleaf, Tera paibi (Manipuri); 
  

Crassocephalum crepidioides, with nodding heads. Buds emit mango smell when crushed.


Gynura Bicolor
Asteraceae
Date/Time-
22 Mar 2009
Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-Chandagal Village, Mysore district
Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-Wild, Village
Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb-Herb
Height/Length-approx -  ~ around  1 meter
Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size- Not clear in my photograph
Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts 
=2cm=wasp-size, red-orange
Other Information like Fragrance, Pollinator, Uses etc.-Attracts difft. wasp species


Date/Time : 21st of October, 2008/ 9.52 am.
Location Place : Tea garden, Munnar ... Altitude :  ... GPS : 
Habitat : Wild ... Type :

Plant Habit : Herb ... Height : small plant
Found these growing wild in a tea garden at Munnar.
I will support ... whole heartedly this plant is indeed Crassocephalum crepidioides
have tried to smell the flower-heads? just pick a young one, slightly crush and smell.

  
 
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Request Botanical & Common ID of this Wild Flower-
Date/Time - Over the past one week/evening-around 5pm
Location - Bangalore - building compound
Habitat - Wild
Plant Habit - Tall shrub
Ht - 21/2 '
Flower size - 1cm

Pl also check it for Crassocephalum crepidioides.

Yes .. may be right. One can see a dark tipped smaller bracts at the base of larger inner whorl of involucre bracts.  Crassocephalum crepidioides a better choice.
looks like Gynura bicolor (Roxb. ex Willd.) DC.
This is C.crepidioides syn Gynura crepidioides. Please check this link: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Thickhead.html
yes Crassocephalum crepidioides, an American weed, whereas Gynura bicolor is very distinct from this 


 
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Attached images are Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore.
Date :08/12/2012
Location: Kamrup district (Rural) Assam
Family : Asteraceae
Genus & species : Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore
Habitat: Grows wild
Habit : Herb
Inflorescence : Head red in colour
Fruits :Cypsela
 
 
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Gori Valley Tour: Crassocephalum crepidiodes: This fast spreading weed was encountered almost everyday... Crassocephalum crepidiodes.... the upload by ... indicated its very wide distribution range in Himalayas ...shot from various locations in the area..


 
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Wild Plant For ID : Uttarakhand : 190413 : AK-2 : Attachments (1). 7 posts by 4 authors.
Kindly id this wild plant seen on the way to Nainital on 23/3/13.
Please check, Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore: Asteraceae
Yes, Crassocephalum crepidioides, a widely spreading weed..
Thanks for validation.
I recollect posting the same from Munnar earlier.
Common name Thickhead.
Yes it is Crassocephalum crepidioides.

This one is a small herb of Asteraceae Family photographed at "Pateshwar, Satara".
..., for me this is Crassocephalum crepidioides.. a fast spreading weed..
My guess Gynura bicolor
Yes it is Crassocephalum crepidioides.

Attachments (1).  3 posts by 3 authors.
Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore (=Gynura crepidioides Benth.) is a fast spreading tropical weed in India. Now not restricted only to tropical parts it has reached up to 1800m (Temperate zone) in Uttarakhand.
Here photographed near Naini Tal Uttarakhand.

Yes ... Found a lot this time on Chopta trip.
Very fast spreading indeed...

Attached images are Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore collected from Kamrup district, Assam.
Date :08.12.2012
Location: Kamrup district
Family : Asteraceae
Genus & species : Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore
Habitat: Grows wild on waste places 
 
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Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore  
Common names: fireweed, thick head
Common along roadsides in Uttarakhand. Photographed fro Bhageshwar and Kathgodam.

Attachments (5).  2 posts by 2 authors.
This fast spreading weed was recorded from many locations during our tour to Gori valley area... Crassocephalum crepidioides..


 
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Crassocephalum crepidioides : Attachments (1).
Crassocephalum crepioides

Requesting to please ID this plant captured in Lalbagh, Bangalore in November 2013.
I hope Crassocephalum crepidioides
Thank you ... for ID...

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Dindori Nashik : 1 post by 1 author.
attaching images of Crassocephalum crepidiodes from Dindori Nashik

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Asteraceae sp for ID- 171211-PKA1: Seen this herb at "Veer Jijamata Udyan, Mumbai".
Family: Asteraceae
Date/Time: 17-12-2011 / 10:45AM
Location: Veer Jijamata Udyan, Mumbai
Habitat: Seen in Nursery
Plant Habit: Herb ( approx. 40 cm in height),
stem reddish brown
Crassocephalum crepidioides (Bth.) S. Moore, except that leaves look rather different.
... Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. ex DC. may be a better choice looking at the leaves.
I think it some species of Gynura aurantiaca??? May be ... can help for the ID.
I reiterate
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. ex DC.
 
Closer to Crassocephalum crepidioides as stated by ... rather than Emilia sonchifolia by ... or Gynura aurantiaca by ... as stated in another thread.
 
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Location: Champadevi , Nepal
Altitude:  5000 ft.
Date: 12 November 2016
Is this variegata  ???
 
 
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Request for identification-D1 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)
Kindly request you to identify with scientific name. This photo has been taken in East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.

Crassocephalum crepidioides 


 
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Saw these at Pipalkothi, Uttarakhand in Aug 2018.
I think the leaves and the flowers do not belong to the same plant.
Requested to please ID.

Crassocephalum Species. 

Thanks ... for the feedback. They resemble Crassocephalum crepidioides.

Wild Plant for ID : Asteraceae : Bangalore : 23MAY20 : AK-11 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Seen last week growing wild. (23.5.20)
Crassocephalum crepidioides

Yes.

Id of Flower-ID03072020SH1 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Flower for id pl
Location -Mandal, Uttarakhand
Date - November 2019

Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore 



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