| Early Blooming Pleione |
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| File size | 353125 |
| Original date | 10/31/10 12:59 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected, auto |
| Focal length | 195.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D70s |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Pleione praecox Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Epidendrum praecox, Dendrobium praecox, Coelogyne praecox
Synonyms: Epidendrum praecox, Dendrobium praecox, Coelogyne praecox
Early Blooming Pleione is an epiphytic and
lithophytic miniature orchid species with big, fragrant flowers. The
flowers are quite large with pink petals around a tubular white lip,
which is stained deep pink at the mouth and marked internally with
yellow. Shortly cylindrical, maroon pseudobulbs, covered by greenish
warts, carry 2 apical, narrowly elliptic-lanceshaped, pointed leaves.
Early Blooming Pleione is from southwestern China, India, Nepal,
Vietnam, north Thailand and Myanamar where it grows in primary highland
cloud forests on mossy trees and the rocks below them at altitudes of
1500-3400 m.
| Identification credit: K.L. Chaudhary | Photographed in Shillong, Meghalaya & Nambu Reserve Forest, Sikkim. |
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