Hi!!! every one, after a long stretch I'm back again with some of Beautiful Himalayan Wild Flowers, which I clicked through my previous Mountaineering Expedition beginning from the year 2002, through the Indian Himalaya.
Actually I'm a so called Mountaineer & I love to climb Mountain, & also a nature lover. When ever I go for the Mountaineering or trekking, this wild & beautiful flowers attracted me, (Just like a Boy or Man attracted with a beautiful Girls or a Beautiful women, and a girls or Women attracted to a Beautiful Boy or a Man) & then I feel I'm in the Haven & to closed to the God, then I make a decision to clicked randomly those flowers to show the world & for them, who can not avail to go that region, & those who are not capable to trek, to see this type of flowers & how they are beautiful & how our Himalayas is like a Haven with this flowers.
Now I will try to describe the flowers, they are serially as bellow..
Musk Larkspur :
Common name: Musk Larkspur
Botanical name: Delphinium
Brunonianum
Family: Ranunculaceae
(Buttercup family)
Musk larkspur is a perennial herb growing mostly on screen.
It can grow to 20 cm tall, and has a strong musky smell. Leaves are rounded,
lobed to two-thirds - lobes are toothed. Flowers are blue, large 3-5
cm including the spur. The flowers look inflated and rather papery, woolly
haired, and sometimes prominently veined. Flowers are borne is small dense
cluster. The upper petals are forms a backward-projecting broad blunt spur.
Inner petals are blackish. Musk Larkspur is a high altitude plant, it’s found
mostly at 4300-5500 mtr.
This Beautiful flower I was found at my Mt. Ramjak Expedition in the year of 2014, & Next was found at my Mt. NUN Expedition in the year of 2016.
Named : Musk Larkspur.
Himalayan Musk Rose :
Common
name:
Himalayan Musk Rose
Botanical name: Rosa Brunonii
Family: Rosaceae
(Rose family)
The Himalayan Musk Rose is a stout climber with small curved prickles.
Leaves are compound with 5-7 elliptic to oblong - lace like and finely toothed.
Beautiful, fragrant, white flowers consist of 5 petals forming a single cup.
Flowers occur in closer at the end of branches. Styles merge into a column, exerted,
emerges out of the spreading numerous yellow stamens. Fruit purple-brown or
dark red, ovoid, 1 cm in diameter, smooth, shiny.
This beautiful rose I was found it at my Mt. Nandaghunti Expedition in the year of 2015.
Name : Himalayan Musk Rose.
Himalayan Cinquefoil :
Common name:
Silver-Leaved Cinquefoil, Himalayan Cinquefoil
Botanical name: Potentilla
argyrophylla
Family:
Rosaceae (Rose
family)
Tall,
perennial herbs. Stem 30-50 cm long, generally leafy, grayish - white tomentose.
Leaves trifoliate, petioles 10-20 cm long, densely tomentose. Basal stipules
membranous, auricles oblong ovate, acuminate, cauline stipules leafy 3-7
divided. Leaflets broadly ovate-elliptic to obviate-elliptic, 2.5-5.0 x 1.5-2.0
cm, acutely 12-34 serrate-dent-ate, upper surface sparsely ad pressed pi lose to florescent, lower surface dull white tomentose. Flowers conspicuous, 2.0-3.8
cm diam, sepals pi lose, outer ovate, obtuse, generally entire, inner
oblong-ovate, acute. Petals large, red or bright yellow, 10-19 mm long and
broad, emarginated. Stamens and carpals numerous, style sub terminal, lifeforms,
thickened below, 1.5-2.5 mm long.
It was clicked at my Mt. Ranjak Expedition (Zandkar Himalaya) in the year of 2013
Name : Himalayan Cinquefoil
Himalayan Cinquefoil :
Common name:
Himalayan cinquefoil, Ruby cinquefoil
Botanical name: Potentilla
Atrosanguinea
Family:
Rosaceae (Rose
family)
Ruby cinquefoil has very
beautiful leaves with a silvery sheen and silvery edges. They contrast
beautifully with the blood red flowers. The plants form clumps of relatively
tidy leaves from which the flower spikes rise in all directions. The flowers
actually range from yellow to orange to wine-red. The trifoliate leaves, which
are densely silver-haired and coarsely sharp-toothed set it apart from most
other Potentials. The flowers either grow isolated or in small groups. It is
found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Nepal, at altitudes of 2400-4200 m.
Flowering mostly in June-August.
I was found it at my Mt. Nandaghunti Expedition in the year of 2015 (Outer line of Nanda Devi Sanctuary)
Name : Himalayan Cinquefoil.
Himalayan Fleece Flower :
Common name:
Himalayan Fleece flower, Himalayan Knotweed
Botanical name:
Polygonum Affine
Family: Polygonaceae (Knotweed family)
Himalayan
Fleece flower is low creeping densely tufted mat-forming alpine herb, with
narrow elliptic leaves which are glucose beneath, and with cylindrical spikes
of many pale or deep pink flowers, borne at the top of short erect stems.
Flower-spikes are 5-7.5 cm long, with densely crowded flowers. Stamens slightly
protrude out of the flowers. Leaves are mostly at the base, 3-8 cm long, with
the base narrowed to a short stalk. Leaf margins are entire or very finely
toothed. The mid-vein is prominent. Flowering stems are several, 5-25 cm tall,
with very few smaller leaves. Himalayan Fleece flower is found in the
Himalayas, from Afghanistan to E. Nepal, at altitudes of 3000-4800 m.
I was easy to found in the Himalayan region, But I was clicked it during my Mt. Ranjak Expedition.
Name : Himalayan
Fleece flower
Whipcord Cobra Lily :
Common name: Whipcord Cobra Lily
Botanical name: Arisaema tortuosum
Family: Araceae (Arum family)
The
Whipcord Cobra Lily, I found it when I was my Mt. Nandaghunti Expedition,
region of Outer line of Nanda Devi
sanctuary. The names come from its cobra
like appearance, with a whip-like tongue, up to 12" long, rising up
vertically. Native to open Rhododendron forests, scrub and alpine meadows in
the Himalaya from India to western China. The thick 4' tall fleshy petiole
(stalk) emerges in early June, adorned by two tropical looking palmate green
leaves near the top. As the leaves unfurl, the pitcher that tops the stem opens
to reveal a green Jack-in-the-pulpit flower, but with a whip-like tongue that
extends from the mouth of the flower upwards to 12 or more inches. In autumn,
bright red berries ripen on the tall stem of those plants that have set seed.
This wonderful plant for the woodland garden starts out about 50 cm tall, but
it can eventually attain 2 m and form large clumps. Native from the Himalaya
and western China to southern India and Myanmar (Burma), it is highly variable,
as one might expect. Sometimes the spandex-appendage is green, other times it
is purple.
I was found it at my Mt. Nandaghunti Expedition in the year of 2015 (Outer line of Nanda Devi Sanctuary)
Name : Whipcord Cobra Lily
Webb's Rose :
Common name:
Webb's Rose, Wild Rose, Thorny Rose
Botanical name:
Rosa Webbiana
Family: Rosaceae (Rose Family)
Webb's
Rose is a common shrub rose, widely distributed, and growing from 1500 m to all
the way to 4000 m. A shrub from 1-2 m high, with straight, slender, yellowish
prickles. Leaflets 5-9, obviate or almost round, obtuse, grey-blue. Flowers
born singly, usually pink, with a white center all entirely white, scented.
Fruit bottle-shaped to globular, red. Native to the western Himalayas from the Pamirs in central Asia to Kashmir, Tibet and Afghanistan.
This beautiful wild Rose, I was found it at my Mt. KUN & Mt. NUN expedition. 2012 & 2016.
Name : Webb's Rose, Wild Rose, Thorny Rose
Himalayan Geranium :
Common name: Himalayan Geranium, Lilac Cranesbill
Botanical name: Geranium Himalayense
Family:
Geraniaceae (Geranium family)
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This is the most beautiful Geranium one can find, with beautiful blue
flowers. It is a herbaceous, spreading perennial found in the Himalayas. It can
be easily confused with Meadow
Geranium, however, it is a much smaller plant, remaining mostly less
than a foot tall. Meadow Geranium can grow up to a meter tall or more. Leaves
are palmate cut, 5-7-angled, 3-10 cm broad, but have a more roundish appearance
compared to those of Meadow Geranium. Segments rhomboid to acute, addressed
hairy or pubescent, lobes are pointed or obtuse. Stipples are 6-9 mm long, tabulate -Lancelot. Stalks of lower leaves are up to 23 cm long, upper most
stem leaves are stalk less. The plant bears blue or bluish lavender saucer
shaped flowers tinged with pink and with a white center, 4-6 cm wide, much
larger than those of Meadow Geranium. Flower-stalks are 0.2-2.1 cm long. Sepals
6.7-11.3 mm, macro 0.7-1.3 mms. Himalayan Geranium is found in the Himalayas,
from Afghanistan to C. Nepal, at altitudes of 2100-4300 m. flowering:
June-August.
I was found it during my Nun expedition,
Named : Himalayan Gernium.
Moorcroft's Corydalis :
Common
name: Moorcroft's Corydalis
Botanical name: Corydalis moorcroftiana
Family:
Fumariaceae (Fumitory family)
Moorcroft's Corydalis, I found it
at my Mt. Ramjak Expedition at Zanskar Himalaya. Moorcroft Corydalis is a
perennial, glucose herb, 15-30 cm tall. Root stock is long, 1-2 cm in diameter
at tip, often branched, crowned with residual petiole bases. Stems are 2-4,
from radical leaf axis, ridged, simple or sparingly branched, 2-4-leaved.
Radical leaves are about 2/3 as long as stems. Leaf-stalks are about as long as
blade, long vagi-nate. Blade is oblong, sub-bi-pinnate with 3 or 4 pairs of
pinnate. Pinnate are stalked to stalk less, sub pinnate to tern-ate with
leaflets deeply cut into obviate to counterbalance, culminate, not or only
slightly overlapping lobes, 4-18 × 2-5 mm. Flower racemes are 3-7 cm,
10-30-flowered, very dense at first, considerably elongating in fruit. Bracts
are longer than flower-stalks, lower ones often pinnatilobate, middle and upper
ones entire, elliptic to lance late, 1-2 cm, acute to culminate. Sepals are
whitish, small, and fimbriation-dent ate. Flowers are bright yellow, at first
sub erect, soon slightly nodding. Outer petals: crest high, much extended
beyond apex; upper petal 19-22 mm, acute; spur broad, slightly tapering to
obtuse tip, 8-10 mm; nectar extended through ca. 1/2 of spur; lower petal base
shallowly cascade; inner petals 9-10 mm. Stigma square, with confluent apical
papillae, geminate papillae lateral and on pronounced basal lobes. Capsule
narrowly Ovid, 10 × 3 mm. Seeds in 2 rows, deform, smooth. Moorcroft's
Corydalis is found in the Himalayas, from Ladakh to Kashmir, & Garwal Himalaya to at
altitudes of 4000-5400 m. flowering: July-August.
Dwarf Globe Flower :
Common name:
Dwarf Globe Flower
Botanical name: Trollius Acaulis
Family:
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Dwarf Globe flower is a perennial herb which grows about 15 inches high, has lemon-yellow flowers, and is an extremely variable plant. Flowers are solitary, golden yellow, 5 cm across, and occur before the deeply divided basal leaves fully develop. Petals are broadly oval, 5-10 in number. The center of the flower has stamens and 12-16 yellow oblong nectarines. Leaf blade is rounded in outline, deeply 5-lobed; the lobes are further cut into narrow, toothed segments. Stem is leafy above the middle, 8-15 cm tall when in flower, and grows to a foot tall at the time of fruiting. Dwarf Globe Flower is found in alpine slopes in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 3000-43000 m. flowering: May-June.
I found this bright yellow, through my Mt. Nandaghunti Expedition.
Named : Dwarf Globe Flower
Here is end of this episode...
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