Himalayan Wild Flowers through my Lens (Part - 2)

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) 

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... 

I must back with more some beautiful Flowers with my next publication. 

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