| Green-Flowered Balsam |
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| File size | 485999 |
| Original date | 9/3/15 3:22 PM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Impatiens viridiflora Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Green-Flowered Balsam is a perennial, herb growing on
trees. Stems are erect, cylindrical, woody below, thick, up to 2.5 cm
in diameter, with prominent leaf-scars, herbaceous above, fleshy,
rarely branched, hairless. Leaves are 3-5 x 2-3 cm, elliptic, pointed
at either ends, hairless, usually clustered towards the tip of the
stem; leaf-stalk 1-2 cm long. Flowers are borne in 1-4 flowered cymes
in leaf-axils or at branch-ends; flower-stalks drooping. Flowers are
scarlet-green; lip 1 cm broad at mouth, produced into the spur, scarlet
or pink, hairless. Sepals are 8 x 2 mm, ovate, green and pink; standard
broad, reddish; wings 1.2 cm long, 2-lobed; lobes round, blunt, red,
hairless. The original variety has a greenish white spur with rose pink
lateral petal lobes. Then there are other variants with rose-pink spur
with scarlet red lateral lobes, and a confusing one with scarlet spur
with pink lobes of lateral petals. Green-Flowered Balsam is endemic to
Southern Western Ghats.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Kerala. |
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