| Arnica Himalayan Sunflower |
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| File size | 100089 |
| Original date | 8/9/12 8:30 AM |
| Resolution | 676 x 507 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 26.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cremanthodium arnicoides Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Senecio arnicoides, Ligularia arnicoides, Senecillis arnicoides
Synonyms: Senecio arnicoides, Ligularia arnicoides, Senecillis arnicoides
Arnica Himalayan Sunflower is an eye-catching wild-flower with
yellow sunflower-like flower-heads up to 5 cm across, with a dark central
disk. The species name arnicoides means resembling Arnica
flowers. Nodding flower-heads are borne several, in a spike-like
cluster 10-30 cm long, at the top of the unbranched, up to 2 ft tall
stem. Ray florets are upto 1.5 cm long. Bracts at the base of the
flower-head are elliptic pointed, fused at their bases. Basal leaves
are carried on long, winged stalks, and are up to a foot long,
ovate-oblong, coarsely toothed. Stem leaves are progressively smaller,
more pointed, and stem-clasping. Arnica Himalayan Sunflower is found in the
Himalayas, from Pakistan to SW China, at altitudes of 3300-4800 m.
Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale | Photographed enroute to Hemkund, Uttarakhand. |
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