| Perennial Flax |
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| File size | 101808 |
| Original date | 6/25/09 9:48 AM |
| Resolution | 680 x 510 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 16.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/4000s |
| Aperture | 5.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E5700 |
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Botanical name: Linum perenne Family: Linaceae (Linum family)
Synonyms: Linum elatum, Linum sibiricum, Linum decurrens, Linum alpestre
Synonyms: Linum elatum, Linum sibiricum, Linum decurrens, Linum alpestre
Perennial Flax is a perennial herb up to 75 cm tall
with blue flowers 2.5-5 cm across. Branches are rising up, hairless.
Leaves alternate, linear, up to 3 cm long. Flowers are borne in 3-5
flowered cymes, stalked; flower-stalk 5-10 mm long, up to 2.5 cm in
fruit, erect. Sepals are oblong-ovate, pointed, 5-6 mm long, 3-nerved,
overlapping, persistent, margin membranous. Petals are free, 1.3-1.5 cm
long, contorted, obovate, blue. Stamens are 5, alternating with 5 small
staminodes; filaments up to 4 mm long; anthers about 1.5 mm long,
oblong. Styles are 5, fused at the base, about 4 mm long. Capsule is
almost spherical, 7-8 mm broad. Perennial Flax is found in dry areas in
E. Central Europe to Siberia, China and West Himalaya, at altitudes of
2300-4000 m. Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh. |
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