| Alpine Gerbera Daisy |
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| File size | 742368 |
| Original date | 5/22/11 10:34 AM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 2736 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1600s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot A495 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Oreoseris nivea Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Gerbera nivea, Arnica nivea, Perdicium niveum
Synonyms: Gerbera nivea, Arnica nivea, Perdicium niveum
Alpine Gerbera Daisy is a perennial herb of high
altitudes, with leaves in a rosette. Flower-heads are pinkish or pale
yellow, solitary, drooping and borne on a long cottony leafless stem,
longer than the lobed leaves which are densely white-cottony-haired
beneath. Flower-heads about 3 cm across; ray-florets oblong, about one
and a half times as long as the involucral bracts which are hairless
and have long points, the inner larger and broader. Leaves are obovate,
all regularly pinnately-lobed with rounded obscurely-toothed lobes,
hairless above, narrowed to a short leaf-stalk. Flowering stem is
usually solitary, 4-30 cm. Alpine Gerbera Daisy is found in the
Himalayas, at altitudes of 3300-4500 m, in shrubberies and on open
slopes. Flowering: July-October.
| Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed around Churdhar, Himachal Pradesh. |
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