| Three-Leaf Raspberry |
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| File size | 514754 |
| Original date | 8/16/06 3:46 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/109s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Rubus pedunculosus Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Rubus hypargyrus, Rubus niveus var. pedunculosus
Synonyms: Rubus hypargyrus, Rubus niveus var. pedunculosus
Three-Leaf Raspberry is a rambling spiny shrub up
to 2 m, with slender finely-hairy young branches with recurved thorns,
leaves with 3 leaflets and pink flowers. The flowers are distinctive in
having narrow-triangular long-pointed sepals much longer than the
petals. Petals are pink, ovate, 7-10 x 4-6 mm. Flowers are few usually
borne in short flat-topped finely-hairy clusters. Calyx is up to 1.4 cm
long. The plant is quite variable. Leaflets are ovate, long-pointed
with double-toothed margins, 2.5-6 x 2-5 cm, densely woolly below,
velvet-hairy above. Fruit is orange to red. Three-Leaf Raspberry is
found in the Himalayas, from Himachal Pradesh to SW China, at
altitudes of 2200-3300 m.
Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand. |
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