| Adriatic Soapwort |
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| File size | 460578 |
| Original date | 5/31/17 12:21 PM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-TZ10 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Saponaria calabrica Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Saponaria graeca, Saponaria multiflora
Synonyms: Saponaria graeca, Saponaria multiflora
Adriatic Soapwort is a branched annual herb forming
loose mats. Flowers are pinwheel shaped, bright pink - petals are
nearly round at tip, abruptly narrowed into a claw. Sepal-tube is
0.8-1.2 cm, cylindrical, with short blunt teeth. Flower-stalks and
sepal-cup are glandular-bristly. Flowers are borne in lax panicules
with erect to spreading flower-stalks. Stems have many diverging
branches, hairless below, glandular-velvet-hairy above. Stem leaves are
stalkless, oblong-lanceshaped, slightly fleshy. Capsules are ovoid,
shorter than the sepal-tube. Adriatic Soapwort is native to SE Europe
to E Aegean Islands, cultivated elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Nishat Garden, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
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