| Yellow Star of Bethlehem |
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| Original date | 4/27/16 12:13 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 215.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 5.9 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ70 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Gagea lutea Family: Liliaceae (Lily family)
Synonyms: Gagea indica, Gagea lowariensis, Gagea fascicularis
Synonyms: Gagea indica, Gagea lowariensis, Gagea fascicularis
Yellow Star of Bethlehem is a delicate bulbous plant,
with grass-like leaves, and with small yellow star-shaped flowers which
are greenish or reddish-brown on the outside of the petals.
Flower-cluster-stalk is 4-8 cm long.
Basal leaf is single, flat, longer than the inflorescence, 7-14 mm wide,
elongated-elliptic, faintly longitudinally furrowed at the
base. Leaves on flower-cluster-stalk alternate, lower almost equal to
inflorescence, 9-15 mm wide, widely-elliptic, gradually narrowed in 2-3
mm long apical cusp, upper leaf smaller, linear. Inflorescence is shortly
branched, flowers on long flower-stalks. Tepals are 1.0-1.6 cm long, 3-4 mm
broad, inverted-lanceshaped, rounded, yellow, outside greenish-purple,
elongating and pointed at anthesis, after flowering longitudinally
rolled up. Anthers are yellow, oblong. Ovary is obovate,
on a short stipe. Stem is 5-13 cm. Capsule is up to 3 times shorter than
the flower, three-rayed, inverted-pyramidal, stipe short. Yellow Star of
Bethlehem is found in Europe, Afghanistan to the Himalayas, and in Japan
and Korea. Flowering: April-June.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Doodhpathri, Kashmir. |
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