Plastic waste dumped across a green Himalayan hillside
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A large accumulation of plastic waste and other discarded materials is visible on a grassy hillside in the Himalayan region of India.
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Woolly Rhododendron (Yellow Rhododendron) shrub in Tibet
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Woolly Rhododendron is a shrub 1-3 m tall with young shoots and leaf-stalks densely whitish to tawny woolly-velvety. LEaf-stalks are 1.0-1.5 cm, leaves leathery, elliptic to obovate or oblong-obovate, 6-11 x 2.5-4.5 cm, base obtuse or broadly wedge-shaped, margin curled, tip blunt or somewhat rounded, apiculate. Lower surface is white, densely pale chocolate brown to rufous woolly, hairs crispate dendroid. Upper surface is hairless glabrous except for groove of midrib, midrib and lateral veins prominent below. Flowers are borne in clusters which are racemose-umbellate, 5- or 10-flowered, rachis 3-10 mm, woolly-tomentose. Flower-stalks are 1.5-2 cm, densely whitish to tawny woolly-velvety, calyx 1-2 mm, velvety or hairless. Flowers are broadly bell-shaped, sulfur-yellow, with red spots, 3.5
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