
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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What a wonderful sight to behold on the Chela La Pass above Paro in Bhutan, at the end of winter, when the snow-melt occurs and sprigs of primula leaves appear, quickly leading to profuse purple florets as blooms. Purple Golden-Eyed Primrose is a beautiful high-altitude primrose found in NE India. Flowers are dark purple to magenta with a golden eye, borne in umbels atop leafless stems 5-30 cm tall. Leaves are spoon-shaped to inverted-lanceshaped, toothed, 5-20 x 1-3.5 cm. Flowering stem is much taller than the leaves, a feature which distinguishes it from Blue Golden-Eyed Primrose. Flowers are up to 2 cm across, with obovate overlapping petals. The flower-tube is twice as long as the sepal cup. Sepal cup is often tinged with purple, bell-shaped, 5--8 mm, glandular, parted to middle, sepal
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