| Green-Flowered Onion |
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| File size | 633116 |
| Original date | 8/8/25 2:12 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 25.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5600 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Allium consanguineum Family: Amaryllidaceae (Nargis family)
Green-Flowered Onion is a perennial herb up to 35 cm
tall. Flowers are borne in dense flowered hemispherical umbels.
Flower-stalks are shorter, as long as, or longer than the flowers.
Tepals are 5-6 mm long, oblong, pointed to blunt, yellow or pink.
Filaments protrude out, entire, linear with broad bases. Style as long
as or longer than the filaments. Bulbs are cylindrical to ovoid; outer
coats leathery, brown, striped. Leaves are 3-5, linear, flattened, not
fistular, tip blunt; leaf bases sheathing, hairless; sheath about 1/4
the length of the flowering stem. Green-Flowered Onion is found in
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, China and Pakistan,
wild and cultivated, at altitudes of 2440-3050 m. It is said to be
sometimes cultivated for its leaves in northern Myanmar and NE India.
Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: Sunit Singh, Ashutosh Sharma | Photographed at Bhal Padhri, Bhaderwah, J&K. |
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