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imalayan Fragrant Orchid is a terrestrial orchid, growing to 1-2 ft tall. Tuberoids are palmately divided. The leafy stem are rather stout. Leaves 3-5, are large, erect, oblong, pointed, up to 12 cm long and 3.5 cm wide.

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Himalayan fenugreek is a perennial herb 20-60 cm,found on ravine shores or meadow by woods of the Himalayan valleys. Stem erect or ascending, terete, branching at base, yellow pubescent when young.

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Horned Lousewort, the curious species, inhabits tough and sometimes inaccessible areas of the Himalayan cold deserts.

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Meadow Geranium is a beautiful wildflower commonly found on open slopes in the Himalayas. It is easily confused with Himalayan Geranium. Erect hairy stems can grow to 25-150 cm tall.

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This beautiful fragrant Primula grows close to water in spring-time alpine meadows that have abundant snow-melt.

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A viewer tells us that this is Impatiens glandulifera. As per the description I. gladulifera has pointed (acute) teeth and a club shaped capsule. Thanks, Siddarth! Gigantic Himalayan Balsam is hairless annual plant, growing up to 3 m.

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Himalayan Teasel is a robust perennial herb with opposite entire or palmately lobed leaves. The plant can be easily identified by its solitary round flower-heads on long, leafless, channeled flowering stems.

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Mountain Angelica is a plant which has gone through many identification revisions. The plants is 2-3 m tall, with stout stem with ridges and grooves.

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The Sorrel is a wild shrub that grows on rock faces and walls, and has a lovely rust colour in the fall season. One can see a wild Rose shrub.

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The Jallandhri Garh torrent flows through the Kiarkoti valley below Lamkhaga pass in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Lata Kharak is a wild ridge with meadows on one side and a precipitous rocky route into the inner core of the Nanda Devi sanctuary on the other side.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

A Himalayan Jungle Crow sits in the mist, as a Primula denticulata or similar wild Himalayan Primula species flowers next to clumps of Allium humile or the edible Himalayan spring Onion, in the high altitude grassy meadows above Lata Kharak…

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Anapahalis triplinervis is a Himalayan flower with a delicate white bloom that easily dries and remains faithful to the original.

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Geranium pratense, the Meadow Cranesbill, is a species of plant in the Geraniaceae family. The leaves are deeply divided, divided into 7-9 lobes and 3-6 inch wide.

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Arisaema is a large and diverse genus of the flowering plant family Araceae. The largest concentration of species is in China and Japan, with other species native other parts of southern Asia as well as eastern and central Africa, Mexico an…

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Alpine flowers in the Western Himalayas / Western Himalaya. Alpine plants are plants that grow in the alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line.

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A melange of monsoon time wild flowers from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Himalaya (in order) - Begonia dioica and picta, Roscoea purpurea is a wild ground orchid of sorts, wild ginger, green seed pods of Arisaema wall…

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Aesculus indica, also known locally as payyan and in more common parlance as Horse Chestnut, has an unusual combination of a multitude of pink flowers, along with a few yellow flowers.

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Each spring, the middle Himalayan forests come aflame with the blooms of the Guransh or the Rhododendron arboreum, a medium sized tree that loves mixed forests and gives forth the most ostentatious blooms, attracting birds from afar, for it…

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Wynberg Allen School, Landour bazaar with the Clock tower and the tangled mass of Landour bazaar with houses one upon the other, awaiting the next cataclysmic seismic temblor.

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The Kaitha or wild pear of the Himalaya blooms in great profusion on the forest trees at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Landour and Mussoorie, Uttarakhand Himalaya.

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Rhododendron campanulatum is a flowering shrub of high altitudes, with fragrant leaves. The whites of campanulatum against the brash reds of Rhododendron arboreum make quite a stunning contrast.

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What a rare uncelebrated bloom from the high Himalaya. But then guess what - this flower does NOT want to be celebrated, at least not by humans! It grows in secluded moist bogs next to streams, in mossy slopes away from direct sunlight, and…