| Himalayan Bell Primrose |
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| File size | 338175 |
| Original date | 1/6/04 4:14 AM |
| Resolution | 1 x 1371 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 5.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY |
| Camera model | KODAK DX7440 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Primula matthioli Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Synonyms: Cortusa himalaica
Synonyms: Cortusa himalaica
Himalayan Bell Primrose is a plant very much like a primrose except that it
has bell-shaped flowers. Flowers are rosy-purple, drooping, with long
flower-stalks. They are born in a lax umbel of 5-12 flowers, atop a slender
flowering stem 15-25 cm tall. Flowers are 1.5 cm long, divided divided up
to middle into 5 oblong blunt petals. Flowers have 5 triangular sepals.
Leaves are long-stalked, hairy, with a rounded-heart-shaped blade, 2.5-10
cm across, with 5-7 shallow lobes which are toothed. Himalayan Bell
Primrose is native to Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan and N.W. Himalaya.
It is found at altitudes of 2286-4200 m. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed at Buran Pass, Himachal Pradesh. |
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