| Kashmir Pink |
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| File size | 509626 |
| Original date | 6/6/16 7:21 AM |
| Resolution | 4208 x 2368 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.22mm |
| Exposure time | 1/229s |
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| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Mi 4i |
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Botanical name: Dianthus falconeri Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Kashmir Pink is a perennial herb, shrubby below, with
stems 1-2 ft tall, stout, rigid, symmetrically branched. Leaves are
7-15 cm long, 3 mm wide, 1-3-nerved, channeled, minutely toothed.
Flowers are smaller than those of garden pinks, bone virtually singly.
Petals are white to pink, finely toothed. Sepal-cup is 5 cm, strongly
striped, bracts 4 rarely 6, suddenly contracted into the long cusp,
broad-ovate, long-cuspidate 3-4 times shorter than the sepal-cup.
Kashmir Pink is found in Western Himalayas, from Kashmir to W. Tibet,
common in Gulmarg, Kashmir at about 2130 m altitude.
| Identification credit: Anzar Khuroo | Photographed in Gulmarg, Kashmir. |
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