| Elegant Peacock Ginger |
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| File size | 717429 |
| Original date | 10/9/22 11:59 AM |
| Resolution | 4624 x 2604 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 5.23mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | samsung |
| Camera model | SM-M315F |
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Botanical name: Kaempferia elegans Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Synonyms: Kaempferia crawfurdia, Kaempferia philippiana
Synonyms: Kaempferia crawfurdia, Kaempferia philippiana
Elegant Peacock Ginger is a perennial herb with leaves
2-4, leaf-stalk up to 10 cm long; leaf blade above green, below pale
green, oblong or elliptic, 13-15 x 5-8 cm, base rounded, tip pointed.
Flowers are borne at branch-ends on pseudostems, several flowered;
flower-cluster-stalk short; bracts green, oblong-lanceshaped, about 5
cm. Flowers are pale purple, flower-tube slender, about 5 cm; petals
1.7-2 cm. Sepal-cup is about 2.5 cm. Lateral staminodes
obovate-wedge-shaped, about 1.2 cm. Lip apically 2-cleft to base; lobes
obovate, 2-2.5 cm. Filament very short. Elegant Peacock Ginger is found
in SE Asia, cultivated elsewhere.
| Identification credit: Narendra Joshi, J.M. Garg | Photographed in cultivation in Maharashtra & Delhi. |
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