Cowels Mountain & Pyle's Peak, May 2016
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- Location: 32.820769, -117.038672
- Date/Time Original: 2016:05:14 16:07:31
- GPS Altitude: 349 m Above Sea Level
- Shutter Speed: 1/400
- Aperture: 3.2
- ISO: 160
- Focal Length: 5.2 mm (35 mm equivalent: 30.0 mm)
- Lens: 5.2-26.0mm
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- Circle Of Confusion: 0.005 mm
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- Exposure Time: 1/400
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- Field Of View: 61.8 deg
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- GPS Altitude Ref: Above Sea Level
- GPS Latitude: 32 deg 49' 14.77" N
- GPS Latitude Ref: North
- GPS Longitude: 117 deg 2' 19.22" W
- GPS Longitude Ref: West
- GPS Map Datum: WGS-84
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- Hyperfocal Distance: 1.63 m
- Lens Info: 5.2-26mm f/?
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- Make: Canon
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This little puffball is only about 1.5cm across. Although I can't find any photos of the puffball for the White Pincushion (Chaenactis artemisiifolia) from a few photos back, the puffball for the desert variety, Chaenactis fremontii, is in the Lightner book, and particularly the centers of each seed's umbrella looks more similar to that than to other puffballing Asteraceae.
Apparently the official term for these puffballs is "Seed Head"