| Golden Candelabra Primrose |
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| File size | 434404 |
| Original date | 6/20/13 9:29 AM |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1920 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.1mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-TZ10 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Primula prolifera Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Golden Candelabra Primrose is wonderful primrose,
often called the Glory of the Bog. True to its name, it can produce up
to six whorls of bright yellow flowers opening in succession up around
a stout stem which reaches 90 cm in height. Leaves are evergreen,
hairless, bullate, usually lacking farina, oblong obovate to
lanceshaped, finely toothed, up to 35 cm long by 7 cm wide. Flowers are
bright golden-yellow, fragrant, up to 2.5 cm across in four to six
whorls of up to twenty. Calyx is covered with white powdery coating.
Widespread and extremely variable, especially in size and presence of
farina on the calyx. Golden Candelabra Primrose is found in the Eastern
Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh, Yunnan, Burma and Indonesia, by stream
sides and wet meadows, at altitudes of 2000-3500 m.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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