| Kameng Begonia |
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| File size | 686100 |
| Original date | 5/25/20 5:36 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 10.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/30s |
| Aperture | 5.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Begonia sikkimensis var. kamengensis Family: Begoniaceae (Begonia family)
Kameng Begonia is perennial herb up to 200 cm tall
with stem dark pink to red. Male flowers have outer tepals deep pink to
crimson, inner tepals pale pink. Female flower have tepals deep pink to
pink. Leaves are basal and on stem; leaf-stalk 3-15 cm, blade nearly
round, slightly asymmetric, 12-19 x 10-20 cm, hairless, venation
palmate, 5-7-veined, base shallowly heart-shaped, margin remotely and
shallowly finely toothed, distinctly lobed, Flowers are borne in
hairless clusyer, carried atop flower-cluster-stalk 8-12 cm long.
Capsules are nodding, obovoid-oblong, 1.5-2 cm x 6-7 mm, unequally
3-winged; lower wing oblong-triangular; lateral wings smaller.
Kameng Begonia is found in Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.
Flowering: August-September.
| Identification credit: Mark Hughes | Photographed in Potin, Lower Subansiri, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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