| Pink Saw-Wort |
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| Original date | 8/4/11 1:06 PM |
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| Exposure time | 1/160s |
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| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSLR-A100 |
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Botanical name: Jurinea albescens Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Saussurea albescens, Aplotaxis albescens
Synonyms: Saussurea albescens, Aplotaxis albescens
Pink Saw-Wort is easily identified by its pink,
cylindrical flower-heads which are many, and brone in branched
flat-topped clusters, carried on a simple erect leafy stem.
Flower-heads are 1.3-2 cm long, involucral cylindrical, up to 4 mm
broad, bracts erect, hairless, the outer purplish, ovate sharp-pointed,
the inner ones paler, papery, narrow lanceshaped, 2-3 times longer than
the outer ones. Leaves are very variable, the upper ones being linear
to broadly lanceshaped, stalkless, the lower ones stalked, entire to
shallow lobed usually white-woolly beneath. Stem is slender, up to 1.2
m tall. Pink Saw-Wort is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to C.
Nepal, at altitudes of 2400-3000 m. It is common in Kashmir. Flowering:
June-September.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Botanical Garden, Kashmir University, Kashmir. |
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