| Bicolor Balsam |
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| File size | 648114 |
| Original date | 7/15/21 1:07 PM |
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| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 3.37mm |
| Exposure time | 1/370s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | OPPO |
| Camera model | OPPO F17 |
| Sensor type | MonochromeArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens bicolor Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens nepalensis, Impatiens picta
Synonyms: Impatiens nepalensis, Impatiens picta
Bicolor Balsam is a hairless annual herb up to 70 cm
tall. Flowers, borne in umbel-like racemes, are yellow with rose
colored dorsal petal, hence the name bicolor. Flower-stalks are up to 2
cm long elongating to 2.5 cm in fruit. Bracts are ovate about 3 cm
long; lateral sepals 3-4 mm long, green, broadly ovate, somewhat
heart-shaped, acpiculate. Lower sepal broadly is conical, possibly
reminding of an amphora, gradually narrowed into incurved spur about 1
cm long. Anterior petal is broadly round about 8 x 15 mm rose pink.
Leaves are elliptic-ovate to elliptic, up to 12 cm long, margin
rounded-toothed, tip tapering, leaf-stalk 2-4 cm long with basal
stalkless glands. Capsules are cylindrical, erect, 2-3 cm long. Bicolor
Balsam is found in North-India, Poonch, Kashmir, Jammu, Nepal and
Pakistan, at altitudes of 1500-3000 m. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed between Rajouri & Banihal-Ramban, J&K. |
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