| Geranium Rock Jasmine |
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| Original date | 5/24/16 4:26 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 135.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS REBEL T4i |
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Botanical name: Androsace geraniifolia Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Synonyms: Androsace flaccida
Synonyms: Androsace flaccida
Geranium Rock Jasmine is a perennial herb with
runners thread-like, 10-30 cm, soft, velvet-hairy. Leaves form a
rosette; leaf-stalk 3-15 cm, hairy. Leaves are nearly round to
kidney-shaped, 2.5-5 cm wide, strigose, base heart-shaped, palmately
5-7-lobed to middle; lobes wedge-shaped-obovate, 3--5-lobulate. They
look like Geranium leaves. Flowering stems are 2 to many, arising from
leaf rosettes, usually about twice as long as leaves; umbels
6-14-flowered; bracts lanceshaped, 2.5-5 mm. Flower-stalks are 5-10 mm,
finely velvet-hairy. Calyx is velvet-hairy, 3--3.5 mm, parted to
middle; sepals ovate-lanceshaped, tip blunt. Flower are white or pink
with a yellow eye, about 7 mm in diameter. Petals are obovate-oblong,
tip rounded. Geranium Rock Jasmine is found in Fir forests and grassy
mountain slopes, at altitudes of 2700-3000 m, from Kumaon to Bhutan,
Sikkim. Flowering: May-June.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Lachen, North Sikkim. |
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