Botanical name: Corydalis crassifolia    Family: Papaveraceae (Poppy family)
Synonyms: Corydalis crassissima, Corydalis physocarpa

Fleshy-Leaf Corydalis is a remarkable plant growing in otherwise barren screes, sporting a dense cluster of relatively large violet to pinkish-white flowers, with rounded, deeply lobed, fleshy. prominently glaucous leaves. The flowers are succeeded by large globular inflated capsules. Flowers are 2-2.5 an, with a slightly down-curved spur, subtended by spoon-shaped to lanceshaped green bracts. Leaves with a rounded to kidney-shaped 3-lobed blade 5-10 cm across. with rounded-toothed or shallowly lobed margin; stem leaf are similar, stalkles. Fruit is inflated, balloon-like, 1.5-2.5 cm. easily dispersed by the wind or gravity. Fleshy-Leaf Corydalis is found on screes in N. Pakistan to W. Tibet and NW. Himalaya, at altitudes of 3600-4500 rn. Flowering: July-August.

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