| Speckled Pink Rhododendron |
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| File size | 722689 |
| Original date | 3/12/22 6:01 AM |
| Resolution | 2250 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 3.84mm |
| Exposure time | 1/33s |
| Aperture | 2.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Y3 |
| Sensor type | Undefined |
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Botanical name: Rhododendron hylaeum Family: Ericaceae (Blueberry family)
Speckled Pink Rhododendron is an evergreen shrub or
tree, up to 40 ft high, with a pinkish, flaking bark. Flower are
tubular-bell-shaped, five-petaled, fleshy, up to 4.5 cm long, pink,
dark spotted, with five nectar-pouches at the base. Flowers are borne
in branch-end cluster of 10-12 flowers, flower-stalks 1-1.5 cm long,
eglandular. Sepal-cup is cup-like, wavy, up to 1.5 cm long. Ovary is
eglandular, style hairless. Leaves are leathery, inverted-lanceshaped
to obovate, rounded to blunt at the tip, narrowed to a roundish or
slightly heart-shaped base, 7.5-17 cm long, 2.-5 cm wide, hairless on
both sides; leaf-stalk up to 2.5 cm long. Speckled Pink Rhododendron is
found in East Himalaya (Arunachal Pradesh) to China South-Central,
Myanmar and Tibet, at altitudes of 2600-3600 m. Flowering: May-June.
| Identification credit: Dipankar Borah | Photographed in Myodia, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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