| Kashmir Blue Poppy |
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| File size | 752842 |
| Original date | 7/27/24 10:26 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 71.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D Mark II |
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Botanical name: Meconopsis latifolia Family: Papaveraceae (Poppy family)
Synonyms: Meconopsis sinuata var. latifolia, Papaver latifolium
Synonyms: Meconopsis sinuata var. latifolia, Papaver latifolium
Kashmir Blue Poppy is a perennial herb with large
blue, rarely white, flowers, numerous in a spike-like cluster borne on
a leafy stem up to 1 m. Petals are 4, broadly ovate 3.5-4 cm long;
stamen filaments deep blue, anthers orange-yellow. Basal leaves are
long-stalked; blade ovate to oblong, up to about 20 cm, coarsely and
regularly shallowly rounded-lobed, with sparse straw-colored bristly
spines. Upper leaves are stalkless. Capsules are obconic about 3 cm,
with style covered with spreading bristly spines. Kashmir Blue Poppy is
endemic to Kashmir, growing on rocky slopes at altitudes of 3500-4000
m.
Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: Akhtar Malik | Photographed in Razdan Pass, Gurez, Kashmir. |
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