| Panicled Butterfly Bush |
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| Original date | 1/21/09 7:27 PM |
| Resolution | 1440 x 1080 |
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| Focal length | 5.35mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-W110 |
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Botanical name: Buddleja paniculata Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort family)
Panicled Butterfly Bush is a shrub or small tree with peeling bark. It has
fragrant, pale mauve, pink or white flowers in short dense spikes arranged
in large leafy branched clusters at the end of branches. Flowers are up
to 8 mm long, flower-tube very densely woolly-haired, with orange throat,
with 4 spreading rounded petals. Sepal cup is urn-shaped, woolly-haired,
with rounded sepals. Leaves are very variable, mostly 10-18 cm long, those
at the end of branches are oblong-lanceshaped entire, lower ones are arrow-
shaped and deeply toothed. Young branched and leaves are very densely
covered with red-brown hairs. Panicled Butterfly Bush is found in the
Himalayas, from W. Nepal to Bhutan, at altitudes of 900-2400 m.
Flowering: February-May.
| Identification credit: Amit Kumar | Photographed in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. |
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