| Himalayan White Primrose |
|
 |
|
| File size | 357184 |
| Original date | 6/10/10 1:42 PM |
| Resolution | 1864 x 1398 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
| Focus Distance | |
| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
 |
 ative |
 |
 |
 |
Photo: |
Botanical name: Primula obliqua Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)
Himalayan White Primrose is a beautiful large-flowered primrose found high
in the Himalayas. It is a perennial herb with leaves forming a rosette.
Leaves are lanceshaped to inverted-lanceshaped or narrowly obovate, 8-20
cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, powdery yellowish-white on the underside. Margin
is finely regularly toothed, and the tip is pointed to blunt. Flowers are
born on leafless stems 20-55 cm tall, which are powdery-white on upper
part. White flowers are born in a 5- or 6-flowered umbel. Flower stalks
are 1-3 cm long, elongating to 5 cm in fruit, yellow powdery. Flowers hang
looking down. Sepals cup is tubular-bellshaped, 8-10 mm, yellow powdery,
with oblong sepals. Flowers are bell-shaped 2-3 cm across, with a tube
1.4-1.6 cm long. Petals are broadly obovate, deeply notched. Capsule is
cylindric, about as long as to slightly longer than the sepal cup.
Himalayan White Primrose is found at altitudes of 3500-4600 m in the
Himalayas, from C. Nepal to Bhutan, S.E. Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.
Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar | Photographed in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh & Tsomgo Lake, Sikkim. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,