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flowers · hills

This Tibetan poppy, as it is also called, is endemic to the cold mountain regions of southeastern Tibet.

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It is native to the Himalayas, northern Burma, Tibet and Yunnan Province in China where it is typically found in shady mountain areas, mountain meadows, slopes and woodlands.

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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.

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The yellows of Dandelion, the white Potentially blooms, white wild strawberry flowers and blue primula: all blooms of a Himalayan spring as you drive from Thimphu to Dochula pass.

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Bell Rhododendron is a wild species of rhododendron found in the Himalayan alpine regions of Northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal. It is a spreading shrub, 2-6 m tall. Its leaves are very interesting.

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Nepal's flora has a lot to offer, however, the beauty lies in the smallest things like these brilliant yellow flowers of Primula strumosa. We came across this bed of primulas while we were trekking to Mulde or Muldhai peak.

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What a pleasant surprise when we were approaching 10, 500 feet at Dochula Pass in Bhutan, on seeing a tree laden with bright white orchid flowers growing in profusion and with great abandon, immune to the ills of this world, and caring two…

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The most common low to middle altitude primula is the denticulata. Seen here growing on an open, grassy meadow in the Annapurna National Park in Nepal.

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Nepal's flora has a lot to offer, however, the beauty lies in the smallest things like these brilliant yellow flowers of Primula strumosa. We came across this bed of primulas while we were trekking to Mulde or Muldhai peak.

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A newly-born Yak baby (surely the cutest bundle!) on the grass takes in its pristine high Himalayan habitat, with grasslands, meadows and high altitude forests of spring-time flowering Rhododendron arboreum in western Nepal.

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Rhododendron campanulatum, the most prolific high altitude shrub rhododendron flower across the Himalaya. Seen here growing on an open, grassy meadow in the Annapurna National Park in Nepal.

flowers · industry

Rhubarb grows amid buttercups in a lush Tibetan summer-time meadow. The thick stems of the rhubarb can be cooked or eaten raw, despite being sour and contain high Vitamin C content, apart from other minerals.

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Himalayan flowers in a Tibetan alpine meadow in Kham. Asters and Stellera. What is that lovely purple bell shaped flower that hangs downwards? Not a Belladonna, surely? Stellera is a genus of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, wit…

flowers · river

While travelling west of Bumthang in central Bhutan, we ascended the Thrumshingla or Thumsingla pass and among much high altitude bird call, and stream flow sounds, we found these three varieties of Rhododendrons of Bhutan flowering in the…

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Stellera chamaejasme, a high altitude flowering Himalayan plant Jangli palak or wild spinach grows in a trans Himalayan meadow in Tibet. Himalayan flowers in a Tibetan alpine meadow in Kham. Asters and Stellera.

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The Indian star tortoise scientifically known as Geochelone elegans, belongs to a species of tortoise found in semi-arid grassland and scrub forest of India and Sri Lanka.

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The rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) belongs to the family of parakeets, Psittaculidae.

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The rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) belongs to the family of parakeets, Psittaculidae.

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Cassia Indigo is an erect shrub, 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves are compound 7-15 cm long, with 11-21 leaflets, 1.1-2.4 cm long, 7-15 mm broad, oblong to elliptical, blunt, truncate to slightly retuse, apiculate, velvety on both sides.

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Jacquemont's Cobra Lily is a perennial which grows to a height of 0.6m and a width of 30-50 cm. Leaves 1 or 2. Leaflets 5-7, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-lanceolate.

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Beautiful yellow rhododendron flower blooms at Dochula, Bhutan. Yellow rhododendron blooms along the river bank adding the beauty to nature.

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The Beautiful Delicate Fuchsias flower blooms with rich pink petals, some buds are waiting to be bloom so that it can enhance the beauty of carbon negative country, Bhutan.