| Ladakh Thistle |
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| File size | 135080 |
| Original date | 6/26/09 3:57 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 15.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/2000s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E5700 |
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Botanical name: Cousinia thomsonii Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Arctium thomsonii
Synonyms: Arctium thomsonii
Ladakh Thistle is an erect spiny thistle-like
plant, with a cottony stem and deeply pinnately lobed spiny leaves
which are white-cottony beneath. and with large erect pink or purple
flower-heads with spherical, spiny, woolly-haired involucre.
Flower-heads are 5-6 cm across, involucral bracts rigid, linear with
spreading or recurved tip spine. The inner ones are shining papery.
Basal leaves are 12-25 cm long, stalked, linear in outline, with
numerous unequal lobes ending in a long rigid spine. Stem leaves are
stalkless, broader. Stem is up to 45 cm tall. Ladakh Thistle is
found on stony ground in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan to W. Nepal
and Tibet, at altitudes of 3000-4200 m. It is common in Ladakh and
Lahaul. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Satish Phadke | Photographed in Lahaul-Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. |
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