| West-Himalayan Onion |
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| Original date | 4/14/19 10:13 PM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
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Botanical name: Allium jacquemontii Family: Amaryllidaceae (Nargis family)
Synonyms: Allium miserabile
Synonyms: Allium miserabile
West-Himalayan Onion is a plant 15-35 cm tall. Bulb is
ovoid, 0.5-1.2 cm broad; outer coats leathery, striped, black-brown;
inner membranous. Flowering stems are slender, hairless. Leaves are
2-3, linear, fistular, 0.5-1.5 mm broad, hairless. Flowers are borne in
hemispherical, dense flowered umbels, about 3 cm across. Flower-stalks
are thread-like, about 1.5 cm long. Tepals are rose colored, about 5 mm
long, oval, pointed. Filaments are about 2/3 the length of the tepals,
entire, inner broader, triangular; anthers dark violet. Style does not
protrude out, stigma is headlike. West-Himalayan Onion is found in
Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Western Himalaya. It is a
common species in the plains and the foothills, but also found at high
altitudes. Flowering: March-April.
| Identification credit: Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed in Bajaura, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh. |
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