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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Himalayan Flowers in Nepal




Himalayan Flowers
                                Buttercup Family



The buttercup family Ranunculaceae, includes some of the most delicate and beautiful Himalayan flowers like anemone, larkspur marsh marigold monkshood, columbine trollius, pulsatilla, marsh marigold, monkshood columbine trollius, pulsatilla, etc. many of these are indeed familiar garden plants in temperate land and in hill in Nepal.
  

Trollius acaulis with horizontal stout underground rootstock densely clothed with dry bases of old petioles and palmate leaves flowers solitary, with sepals 5-10 or more , golden yellow and petaloid, the petals are minute and also yellow blooms at 3300-4500m.

           

A grassymeadow, near a melt- water stream at elevations of 3900-4200m, crowded with masses of bright yellow flowers of buttercup caltha palustris waving madly in the cold, dry bitter wind.
                
                

 A beautiful masaic mainly Anemone obtusiloba, 3200m.

            

 Ranunculus sp at 3600m in full bloom, close to the ground in summer. 


                 
 Ranunculus with bright yellow flowers, at an elevation of 4200m the sepals are colored yellow like the petals, which are themselves absent.
                  


 A single creamy white coloured flower of buttercup at an elevation of 3600m

                       

 A single bright yellow coloured flower of buttercup at an elevation of 4200m
               
 


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