| Woolly Mint Shrub |
|
 |
|
| File size | 392573 |
| Original date | 8/14/06 9:19 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/149s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
| Focus Distance | |
| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
| Sensor type |
 |
 ative |
 |
 |
 |
Photo: |
Botanical name: Colquhounia vestita Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Colquhounia coccinea var. vestita
Synonyms: Colquhounia coccinea var. vestita
Woolly Mint Shrub is an erect shrub 1.5-3 m tall. Orange-red flowers are
borne in raceme-like spikes, bearing
6-10-flowered whorls. Flowers are orange-red, with sparse star-shaped
and simple hairs, about 2.5 cm; tube about 2 cm, curved outward, throat
dilated, narrowed toward base; upper lip ovate; lobes of lower lip ovate,
middle lobe notched. Sepal-cup is tubular, 1.2-1.5
cm, woolly; teeth triangular, 1.5-2 mm. Flower-stalks are about 1 mm.
The inflorescence is densely woolly except for flowers. Old branches
are nearly hairless, with longitudinally exfoliating bark, young branches
densely gray woolly-woolly. Leaf-stalks are 1.2-1.5 cm; leaf blade ovate to
elliptic-ovate, 5.5-12 × 2-6 cm, above dark green, finely bullate,
with simple and stipitate star-shaped hairs, below gray, densely
woolly, base rounded to shallowly heart-shaped, margin crenulate,
tip pointed. Woolly Mint Shrub is found in the Himalayas to China, at
altitudes of about 2000 m and above. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Sadokpam Ranjita | Photographed in Govindghat-Ghangria route & Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,