| Basket of Gold |
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| File size | 87289 |
| Original date | 5/6/12 5:38 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Aurinia saxatilis Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Alyssum saxatile, Crucifera saxatilis
Synonyms: Alyssum saxatile, Crucifera saxatilis
Basket of Gold is a little, rounded, evergreen
perennial that can grow 4-12 inches high, forming a mound up to 16-20
in across. The flowers are clear yellow, but the various cultivars
produce flowers in white, cream, lemon or gold. It has 5-12 cm long
oblanceolate to obovate-oblong stalked basal leaves, obscurely toothed
to entire, upper leaves are stalkless and smaller. Since its natural
habitat is rocky, mountainous country, it is ideal for a rock garden,
for dry, sloping ground, or for edging garden beds, provided the
drainage is excellent. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural
Society's Award of Garden Merit. Basket of Gold is native to Turkey,
southern and central Europe.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed in Badam Vari Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir. |