| Himalayan Fountain Grass |
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| File size | 73585 |
| Original date | 6/22/10 10:03 PM |
| Resolution | 592 x 444 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSLR-A100 |
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Botanical name: Pennisetum flaccidum Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Himalayan Fountain Grass is is a tufted perennial grass with thick tough
rhizomes. Stems are branched at the base, 30-120 cm high, erect.
Leaf-blades are linear, 5-40 cm long, 4-13 mm wide, flat or folded.
Sheaths are neither strongly keeled (but the lowest may be weakly keeled)
nor conspicuously imbricate. Flowers are borne in linear panicles, 4-22 cm
long. Involucre encloses 1-4 spikelets, one of them stalkless and
bisexual, the others shortly stalked and male (but scarcely different in
appearance). Spikelets are lanceshaped, 4.5-6.5 mm long. Himalayan
Fountain Grass is found in the Himalayas, from Jammu and Kashmir, Nepal to
Tibet, at altitudes of 1700-4300 m.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed in Gulmarg, Kashmir. |