| Orange Ginger Lily |
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| File size | 363598 |
| Original date | 7/5/05 1:17 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/88s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Hedychium coccineum Family: Zingiberaceae (ginger family)
Synonyms: Hedychium aurantiacum, Hedychium carneum, Hedychium roscoei
Synonyms: Hedychium aurantiacum, Hedychium carneum, Hedychium roscoei
Orange Ginger lily is a plant found in the Himalayas which
produces beautiful orange bottle-brush like spikes of orange flowers. Flowers
are very showy, bright orange-red, many in a long upright spike up to a foot
long, each with a long-projecting stamen. The stamen has bright red filament,
twice as long as the linear petals. Leaves are sheathing at the base, with
long lance-shaped blade, 5-8 cm broad and up to 45 cm long. Stem can grow to 2
m. Orange Ginger lily is found growing wild in the Himalayas and in the NE
India, at altitudes of 450-2000 m. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Manipur & Arunachal Pradesh. |
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