| Barbed Forget-Me-Not |
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| File size | 120905 |
| Original date | 8/14/11 11:23 AM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cynoglossum wallichii Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Synonyms: Cynoglossum glochidiatum, Cynoglossum denticulatum
Synonyms: Cynoglossum glochidiatum, Cynoglossum denticulatum
Barbed Forget-Me-Not is a biennial herb up to 70 cm
tall. Stem and branches in lower parts are hairy with spreading white
hairs 2-3 mm long. Basal leaves are stalked to obovate, nervose on the
lower surface. Lower stem leaves are generally longer and with shorter
stalks, upper leaves gradually reduced in size. Flowers are borne in
long many-flowered racemes, which elongate in fruit, with fruits 1.5-2
cm apart. Flower-stalks are reflexed and up to 3 mm long in fruit.
Sepals are 2 mm long, oblong, slightly enlarged and spreading in fruit.
Flowers are blue to bluish-white. Throat scales are bifid, puberulous.
Filaments are short, attached at the middle of the corolla tube.
Nutlets are round to ovate, dorsal area ovate, with sparse to dense
erect appendages, sunk or less so, keeled. Barbed Forget-Me-Not is
found in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan through Kashmir to Sikkim and
W. China, at altitudes of 1500-4000 m. Flowering: May-August.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Dhanaulti, Uttarakhand & Kashmir. |
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