Himalayan Wild Flowers through my Lens (Part - 4)

Now again I'm here with some more clicks of  the Wild & Beautiful Himalayan flowers.... 
Now I start'ed with ****African Tulip**** 

***African Tulip Tree***
Common name:African Tulip Tree,Fountaintree 

Bengali Name:Rudrapalash
Botanical name:Spathodea Campanulata 

Family:Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family)

1st of all, today I'm starting with one of my Lovely Sister's Click, Named Sarita,she was told me about this flower, Named Rudrapalash, & then she gave me the photographs for using here. The African Tulip or Rudrapalash, is one of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, African tulip tree is a large upright tree with glossy deep green pinnate leaves and glorious orange scarlet flowers. It may grow to 80 ft on an ideal site, but most specimens are much smaller. The tree has a stout, tapering, somewhat buttressed trunk covered in warty light gray bark. The lateral branches are short and thick. The 1-2 ft long opposite leaves, which emerge a bronze color, are massed at the ends of the branches. They are composed of 5-19 deeply veined oval leaflets. The horn shaped velvety olive buds appear in upturned whorls at the branch tips. A few at a time, the buds of the lowest tier bend outward and open into big crinkled red orange tulip like bells with red streaked gold throats, frilly yellow edges, and four brown-anther ed stamens in the center. They are followed by 5-10 in green brown finger like pods pointing upwards and outwards above the foliage. Each of these pods contains about 500 tissue papery seeds. The tree flowers in spurts all through the growing season, but peak bloom is usually in the spring.

***Hooker's Iris***

Common name: Hooker's Iris
Botanical name: Iris hookeriana 

Family: Iridaceae (Iris family)

When ever I was go for the Himalaya I found this beautiful flower named Hooker's Iris, is a perennial herb found growing in the Himalayas, Pakistan, Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Leaves are up to 40 cm long. The flowers-carrying stem is 5-15 (sometime 30) cm tall. Bracts are 4.5-7 cm long. Flowers are borne 2 or few together on very short flower-stalks. Kumaon Iris is a similar-looking plant, but is shorter and has only single-flowered stem. Flowers are blue-purple, with blotches, and a flower-tube 1.2-3.0 cm long. Falls are 5-6.5 cm long, about 2.0 cm broad, ob-ovate, with a white beard, tips colored. Standards are 5 cm, with blade oblong. Filaments are blue, as long as the creamy anthers. Capsule is 5-6 cm long, broadly elliptic, terminating into a prominent beak with dried flower parts. Hooker's Iris is found at altitudes of 2400-3300 m. Flowering: April-July.

***Tall Mistletoe***
Common name: Tall Mistletoe
Botanical name: Scurrula Elata 

Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)

Tall Mistletoe is a rather robust parasitic shrub growing on branches of the trees. Oppositely arranged leaves are ovate, thick, smooth, 7.5-15 cm. Flowers are small curved tubes, 2.5-3.5 cm long, red at the base and green in the upper half. There are 4 narrow petals at the top, which are curved back. Sepal cup is short, rusty haired Flowers are borne in clusters in leaf axis. Youngest shoots and leaves are brown-hairy. Berry is 8 mm across, broadly top-shaped. Tall Mistletoe is found mainly in the Himalayas, from Himachal Pradesh to SE Tibet, at the altitudes of 1500-3000 m. But I was shocked when I found this flower at the deep forest at Matha Forest(West Bengal)(India) 

***Milk Parsley***
Common name: Milk Parsley
Botanical name: Selinum Wallichianum 

Family: Apiaceae (Carrot Family)

Named : Milk Parsley is a hairless perennial herb, 50-150 cm tall. Leaves are 3-5 time finely divided into many elliptic segments which themselves are toothed or lobed. Flowers are white, appearing in compound, umbrella-like clusters, 5-8 cm across. Bracts are linear or not there at all. Primary rays are 15-30, bracelets 5-10, linear to lance-shaped, as long as the flowers. Lower leaves are up to 20 cm long, with long stalks, while the upper ones are smaller. Fruit is oblong-ovoid; dorsal ribs slightly thickened, lateral ribs winged. Milk Parsley is common in shrubberies and open slopes, at altitudes of 2700-4000 m in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Bhutan, but I found this at my Advance Mountaineering Course, when I was on trek from(HMI)Darjeeling to Tiger Hill, & I was found it there.   

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Today here is the end of this 4th episode... 

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Subrata Adak
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