| Chinese Cobra Lily |
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| Original date | 5/31/13 8:48 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Arisaema concinnum Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Synonyms: Arisaema affine, Arisaema alienatum
Synonyms: Arisaema affine, Arisaema alienatum
Chinese Cobra Lily is a perennial herb with
pink-tinged stems 20-25 cm in height. The plant has a single digitately
compound leaf. Leaf is wonderfully symmetrical, whorled like a Chinese
Umbrella of leaflets. Leaflets are 7-13, stalkless,
inverted-lanceshaped to elliptic, base narrowed.
The spathe is of pale fawn and lime-green, striped in white as well as
with darker purple-brown towards the mouth. The tip of the spathe lid
is drawn out into a long whisker that hangs down. Tube is cylindric,
4-8 x 1.5-2 cm, throat obliquely truncate, not auriculate; limb ovate
to deltoid-ovate to narrowly deltoid-ovate, 2-4 cm wide, apex long
acuminate and caudate, to 15 cm including threadlike tail. Chinese
Cobra Lily is found in the Himalayas, from Punjab to NE, Assam, Burma,
SE Tibet, ataltitudes of 1600-2400 m.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed on Ukhimath-Chopta road, Uttarakhand & Lava, Kalimpong, India. |
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