| Geranium Primrose |
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| File size | 189293 |
| Original date | 6/26/11 11:27 AM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 108.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 5.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ40 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Primula geraniifolia Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Synonyms: Primula humicola
Synonyms: Primula humicola
Geranium Primrose is a beautiful species of
primrose whose leaves are strongly geranium-like. Flowers are borne in
3-12-flowered umbels. Bracts are linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong,
5-8 mm. Flower-stalks are 0.5-1.5 cm, elongating to 4 cm in fruit,
hairy. Sepal tube is often tinged with reddish brown, bell-shaped,
5-10 mm, parted to middle. Sepals are lanceshaped. Flowers are rose to
purple - tube 1.1-1.3 cm, limb 1-2 cm wide. Petals are obovate, 6-8 X
about 5 mm, notched. Leaves are 2-4, forming a loose rosette, carried
on stalks 4-13 cm long, densely yellow-hairy. They are round, 3-8 cm
wide, with the base deeply heart-shaped, palmately 7-9-lobed, with
toothed margin. Flowers are born atop 10-30 cm tall leafless stemp
which are densely yellow-hairy. Geranium Primrose is found in Eastern
Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, Assam, SE Tibet, Burma, SW China, at
altitudes of 2800-4600 m. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed at Tsomgo Lake, Sikkim. |
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