| Three-Flowered Rhododendron |
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| File size | 554312 |
| Original date | 6/3/14 10:29 AM |
| Resolution | 4928 x 3264 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 170.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Rhododendron triflorum Family: Ericaceae (Blueberry family)
Synonyms: Rhododendron triflorum subsp. triflorum
Synonyms: Rhododendron triflorum subsp. triflorum
Three-Flowered Rhododendron is an evergreen or
semi-deciduous shrub 1-5 m tall, with cinnamon colored flaking bark.
Branchlets are minutely scaly. Leaves are ovate to lanceshaped, 3.5-6.5
x 1.5-3 cm, pointed, base rounded, green and hairless above, pale green
or whitish beneath with minute scales. Leaf-stalks are 5-12 mm. Flowers
are borne in 2-3-flowered. Flower-stalks are 7-12 mm, scaly. Calyx is
minute, obscurely 5-lobed, scaly. Flowers are strongly bilaterally
symmetric, open funnel-shaped, 2-3 cm, pale yellow green spotted,
sometimes with reddish blotches inside. Stamens are 10, filaments
velvety towards base, oary scaly. Capsules are narrowly cylindric,
about 1.3 cm. Three-Flowered Rhododendron is found in the Himalayas,
from E Nepal to SE Tibet, at altitudes of 2400-3300 m. Flowering:
April-May.
| Identification credit: Jaya Upadhyay | Photographed in Tawang Distt, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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