| Slender East-Himalayan Balsam |
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| Original date | 5/25/17 2:25 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
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Botanical name: Impatiens exilis Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Synonyms: Impatiens longicornu f. cristata Hook., Impatiens formicarum
Synonyms: Impatiens longicornu f. cristata Hook., Impatiens formicarum
Slender East-Himalayan Balsam is a perennial herb
with slender purple flowers. Flowers are borne in clusters of 2-3,
carried on short flower-cluster-stalks, arising in leaf axils.
Flower-cluster-stalks may sometimes be absent, and flowers just
fascicled. Flowers are purple, lip boat-shaped, spur very long,
slender, curved. Leaves are opposite, alternate and pseudo whorled,
ovate-elliptic, narrowing into short leaf-stalks. Capsules are short,
linear or somewhat club-shaped, hairless. Seeds are hairless too.
Slender East-Himalayan Balsam is found in Eastern Himalayas, from Nepal
to Bhutan, Darjeeling, at altitudes of 600-1200 m. Flowering: May-June.
| Identification credit: Wojciech Adamowski | Photographed in Darjeeling distt., West Bengal. |
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