| Himalayan Yellow Sage |
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| File size | 59900 |
| Original date | 7/28/08 7:54 AM |
| Resolution | 618 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Salvia nubicola Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Himalayan Yellow Sage is a tall, robust, strong-smelling hairy herb, with
large yellow flowers with orange upper lips, borne in large branched
spikes at the end of the stem. Flowers occur in distant whorls of few
flowers. Whorls are subtended by ovate-elliptic bracts of varying sizes.
Flowers are 2-3 cm long with a hairy sepal cup about 1 cm long. The upper
lip is long, curved and with an in-curved margin. Lower lip is 2-lobed.
Leaves are glandular hairy, ovate oblong, toothed, stalked, with
triangular spreading basal lobes. Leaves are large, 10-18 cm, and the
plant can grow up to 2-4 ft tall. Himalayan Yellow Sage is found in the
Himalayas at altitudes of 2100-4300 m. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Nongthombam Ullysess | Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |
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