| Many-Flower Geranium |
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| File size | 172494 |
| Original date | 6/26/11 11:48 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Geranium polyanthes Family: Geraniaceae (Geranium family)
Many-Flower Geranium is distinguished by its bright
reddish-purple flowers, borne in a few-flowered umbel-like cluster on
erect stems. Flowers of most Geraniums of the Himalayas occur only in
pairs. Flowers are 1.5-3 cm across, petals 1.2-1.3 cm long. Sepals have
long soft spreading glandular hairs on the outside, and are hairless on
the inside. Leaves are distinctly rounded in outline, mostly 2-4 cm
across, deeply 5-9-lobed, the lobed obovate and further cut at the tip
into blunt segments. Stipules are fused. Stems are 10-30 cm long, and
fruits are coarsely netted. Many-Flower Geranium is found in the
Himalayas, from Uttarakhand to Sikkim and SE Tibet, at altitudes of
2400-4500 m.
Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed at Tsomgo lake & Yumthang Valley, Sikkim & Arunachal Pradesh. |
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