| Small-leaved Trailing Bellflower |
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| File size | 674888 |
| Original date | 8/15/06 12:55 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/301s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Cyananthus microphyllus Family: Campanulaceae (bellflower family)
The name of this beautiful flower tells a lot about it: cyananthus
= blue flower; microphyllus = small-leaved. Native to the Himalayas,
this low growing perennial plant grows only 5-10 cm high. It has trailing
woody, reddish stems with tiny bright green leaves.
Leaves entire, dark green, narrow, elliptic-ovate, at base rounded, 5-8 mm
long. Flowers are solitary, blue-violet, funnel-shaped and with narrow-obovate
pointed spreading petals 1-1.5 cm long, and with tuft of white hairs
within the flower-tube. Sepal tube is half as long as the flower-tube.
Small-leaved Trailing Bellflower is found in the Himalayas, from Uttarakhand
to SE Tibet, at altitudes of 3000-4800 m.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,