| Wild Iris |
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| File size | 671086 |
| Original date | 4/8/09 4:16 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/224s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Dietes grandiflora Family: Iridaceae (Iris family)
Wild Iris is a beautiful bulbous plant native to South Africa, and grown
in cooler parts of India. It is an evergreen herb, forming large clumps of
sword-shaped leaves up to 3 ft in length, and bearing a succession of
beautiful, large, white, Iris-like flowers, each 4 inches or so across.
The flowers are very decoratively ornamented with yellow, brown and blue.
They are white with yellow nectar guides and outer tepals and violet
central segments. The flowers are held on erect, slender stems which are
about 1m in length. The long, rigid, sword-shaped leaves are held in a
fan shape.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in Gangtok, Sikkim. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,