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The Wild Flowers of Mountain Temperate Forest Region

In the temperate forests or forest gaps at 2800 to 3600 m alt. Of south Himalayas and southeast Tibet, there are also some pretty flowers, especially some white flowered and red fruited ones.
The species are: Cotoneaster spp., Sorbus spp., Rosa spp., Lonicera spp., Berberis spp., Impatiens spp., Gentiana spp., Aster spp., Gypripedium spp.; and Iris chrysographes, bluish purple; Streptopus simplex, white flowered and red fruited; Clematis montana, white or reddish white; Chamaenerion angustifolium, purple; Primula florindae, yellow; P. chungensis, orange; Meconopsis betonicifolia, blue; Lilium wardii, light purple; Deutzia compacta var. multiradiata, whith or pink; Rhododendron. Triflorum, reddish; R. faucium, reddish purple; R. bulu, purple; Pleione scopulorum, purple; Oreorchis folios with purple flowers.

 


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