| Grass-Leaved Solomon Seal |
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| File size | 153807 |
| Original date | 6/18/15 2:34 PM |
| Resolution | 976 x 732 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.41mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-HX300 |
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Botanical name: Polygonatum graminifolium Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grass-Leaved Solomon Seal is a small perennial herb
up to 20 cm tall, with horizontally growing tuberous, knotted
underground rhizome. Leaves are opposite, linear and one nerved, 3-5x
2-6mm, margins folded downwards, entire, hairless. Flowers are borne in
the axil of lower leaves, 1-2 flowers on a flower-cluster-stalk. These
flowers are nodding, pink or purple in colour, 5-7 mm long,
funnel-shaped, tepals spreading at anthesis. Six stamens remain in the
middle of the flower tube and only the tips are visible. The plants
produce spherical berry with three seeds. A scattered species in the
subalpine and alpine Himalaya from Jammu & Kashmir to Bhutan, up to
3600m. Grows below boulders, in open grassy slopes. Flowering:
May-June.
| Identification credit: D.S. Rawat | Photographed in Badrinath area, Uttarakhand. |
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