| Nilgiri Pearly Everlasting |
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| File size | 555027 |
| Original date | 10/14/15 2:56 PM |
| Resolution | 2028 x 1521 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 19.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1500s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Average |
| Camera make | FUJIFILM |
| Camera model | X-S1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Anaphalis wightiana Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Gnaphalium wightianum
Synonyms: Gnaphalium wightianum
Nilgiri Pearly Everlasting is a herb with stems woody
and branched below, branches stout rising up, leafy, loosely cottony
and woolly. Leaves are 1.8-3.8 cm, erect and recurved broadly linear
from a semi-stem-clasping base blunt rough above loosely cottony and
whitish beneath, midrib strong beneath, margins strongly recurved.
Flower-heads 6 mm across, stalkless top-shaped densely packed in
rounded corymb-like clusters. Involucral bracts are 3 mm long,
linear-oblong somewhat pointed, white glistening. Nilgiri Pearly
Everlasting is found in Nilgiri mountains, at altitudes of 2000-2300 m.
| Identification credit: Premkumar M. | Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,