| Yellow Himalayan Oxeye Daisy |
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| File size | 191480 |
| Original date | 5/17/12 11:59 AM |
| Resolution | 1400 x 1050 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 50.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 1100D |
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Botanical name: Adonis chrysocyathus Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Synonyms: Adonis margaritae, Chrysocyathus falconeri
Synonyms: Adonis margaritae, Chrysocyathus falconeri
Yellow Himalayan Oxeye Daisy is a perennial herb
with a long vertical rootstock. Stems are 12-25 cm high, up to 40 cm
after flowering, erect, simple. Leaves are confined to the upper part,
reddish at base with short granules, lower leaves with a long stalks,
the upper stalkless, multiply cut into feathery shape, lobes
linear-lanceshaped to ovate-rhombic, long-pointed, sparsely hairy
beneath when young. Flowers are bright yellow, single on a velvet-hairy
stalk. Sepals are 6-8, 1.2-1.5 cm, elliptical, lilac, hairy, toothed,
apex obtuse. Petals are 16-24 in number, 2.5-2.7 cm long, 5.8 mm broad,
inverted-lanceshaped, blunt. Achenes are arranged in a globose head,
with a long involute beak, 5-7 mm long. Yellow Himalayan Oxeye Daisy is
found growing in large clumps on alpine meadows in the Himalyas, from
Kashmir to W. Nepal and W. Tibet, at altitudes of 3000-4300 m.
Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Suresh Rana | Photographed in Paddar Valley, Jammu & Kashmir. |
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