| Balfour's Balsam |
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| File size | 123584 |
| Original date | 7/31/11 9:41 AM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 18.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX L120 |
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Botanical name: Impatiens balfourii Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Balfour's Balsam is an annual herb, 1.5 ft or more
tall, hairless. Leaves are elliptic-ovate to lanceshaped, alternate,
4-10 x 1.8-4.2 cm, toothed, with 8-13 pairs of lateral nerves.
Leaf-stalks are up to 5.5 cm long. Flowers are borne in racemes towards
the ends of branches on peduncles up to 10 cm long. Flowers are white,
pink and yellow, 1.8-2.7 cm long. Bracts are 3 mm long. Lateral sepals
are 2.5 mm long. Spurred lower sepal is 2.2-2.5 cm long, conical,
tapering into a slender straight spur 1-1.5 cm long. Anterior petal is
5.5-6 x 10-13 mm; lateral united petals unequal, 2-2.5 cm long; lower
one prolonged, larger than the upper petal, sometimes retuse. Capsule
is broadly linear, 2-2.4 cm long, erect. Seeds are 2.5-3 mm long,
ovoid. Balfour's Balsam is found in NW Himalayas.
Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Alok Mahendroo, H.B. Naithani | Photographed in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh. |
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