| Twin-Flower Solomon Seal |
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| File size | 1001598 |
| Original date | 6/24/22 6:19 PM |
| Resolution | 3689 x 5668 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Polygonatum geminiflorum Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Synonyms: Polygonatum ciliatum
Synonyms: Polygonatum ciliatum
Twin-Flower Solomon Seal is a perennial herb with
rhizome round, about 7 mm broad. Stem is up to 50 cm tall, round.
Leaves are mostly opposite or sometimes in threes, lower leaves often
alternate, 5-10 x 1-1.6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceshaped to
elliptic-oblong, entire, subblunt, hairless above, minutely hairy on
the nerves below. Flowers are borne in pairs hanging on slender
flower-cluster-stalk 1.5-1.7 mm long. Flower-stalks are 4-5 mm, bract
minute, falling off. Flowers are 1.0-1.1 cm long, tube cylindrical,
white, tepals short, greenish. Filaments are short, hairless, anthers
about 2 mm. Twin-Flower Solomon Seal is found in North Pakistan to
Western Himalayas, at altitudes of 3000-4000 m.
Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Sajan Thakur, Sunit Singh | Photographed in Rudarnath, Uttarakhand. |
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