| Himalayan Tree Hydrangea |
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| File size | 186514 |
| Original date | 10/20/08 9:39 PM |
| Resolution | 920 x 690 |
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| Focal length | 88.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 3.7 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ50 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Hydrangea aspera subsp. robusta Family: Hydrangeaceae (Hydrangea family)
Synonyms: Hydrangea robusta, Hydrangea rosthornii
Synonyms: Hydrangea robusta, Hydrangea rosthornii
Himalayan Tree Hydrangea is a large shrub or a small tree, growing up to 7
m tall. Branchlets and leaf stalks are densely yellow-brown because of the
hairs covering them. Leaf stalks are thick, 3-15 cm long. Leaves are
elliptic, broadly so, or oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, 9-35 cm long, 5-22
cm wide, papery. Flowers are borne in corymb-like clusters which are lax,
long, up to 30 cm wide in fruit. Sterile flowers with 4 large sepals are
purplish to white, broadly ovate, circular 1.2-3.8 cm long and 1.3-3.5 cm,
margin entire or toothed. Fertile flowers are smaller, with sepal tube
1-1.5 mm. Sepals are ovate-triangular, 0.5-1 mm. Petals are purple, ovate-
lanceshaped, 2-3 mm. Himalayan Tree Hydrangea occurs in Eastern Himalayas
Uttarakhand to NE India, E. Tibet, N. Burma, and S. China, at altitudes of
200-2500 m. Flowering: July-October.
Identification credit: K. Haridasan
| Photographed in Upper Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. |