| White Fairy Bells |
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| File size | 528941 |
| Original date | 4/14/22 4:16 AM |
| Resolution | 4608 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 7.7mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX P900 |
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Botanical name: Disporum leucanthum Family: Colchicaceae (Colchicum family)
White Fairy Bells is a perennial herb with long
slender creeping runners 2-3 mm thick. Flowers are borne at
branch-ends, in fascicles of 1-4, with smooth flower-stalks 1-17 mm
long. Nodding, white, widely opening flowers are 2-3 cm in diameter.
Tepals are broad inverted-lanceshaped or spoon-shaped, almost pointed
at the tip, 1.3-2 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, smooth, only slightly sac-like
at the base. Stamens are nearly as long as the tepals, sometimes
shorter; filaments 8-11 mm long, white, hairless; anthers 3-5 mm long.
Style is 9-12 mm long, shortly tri-fid at the tip. Stems are simple,
15-40 cm high, hairless, with 4-6 sheathing bracts in the lower part,
and 3-5 leaves in the upper part. Leaves are oblong or elliptic, 3-8 cm
long, 1-3.5 cm wide, pointed or tapering at the tip, broad-wedge-shaped
or roundish at the base, hairless, with flat cells on margin;
leaf-stalk short. White Fairy Bells is found in Darjeeling distt and
Sikkim, at altitudes of 1000-2500 m, probably also in East Nepal.
| Identification credit: Paulmathi Vinod | Photographed in Singalila Forest, Darjeeling distt., WB. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,