| Hanging Balsam |
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| File size | 211381 |
| Original date | 9/24/15 3:28 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 10.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Impatiens pendula Family: Balsaminaceae (Balsam family)
Hanging Balsam is an erect flaccid herb, 10-15 cm
high, branches with a line of velvety hairs. Leaves are alternate, 6-12
mm long, ovate, elliptic-ovate or somewhat heart-shaped at base,
pointed at tip, sawtoothed, sparsely hairy above, hairless below;
leaf-stalks short. Flowers are borne singly in leaf-axils, about 6 mm
across. Flower-stalks are longer than leaf-stalks, deflexed in fruits.
Lip is concave; spur absent. Standard is spurred on dorsdal side.
Capsules ellipsoid, 3 mm long, beaked, hairless; few-seeded. Hanging
Balsam is endemic to Western Ghats. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: Bhaskar V. | Photographed in Karnataka. |
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