"WILD FLOWERS" Series:
Common name: Showy Inula
Botanical name: Inula orientalis
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Inula grandiflora
The Showy Inula, a member of the Sunflower family, is found
from Kashmir to Nepal at altitudes of 1,800 to 3,600 meters. It is a stout,
hairy perennial herb, 45 to 125 cm. tall, with aromatic roots, and sessile,
serrulate, glandular, elliptic-oblong to subcordate leaves, 5 to 11 cm. long.
The orange-yellow flowers measures 12 cm across, and are rarely borne in
profusion in June. A postal stamp was issued by the Indian Postal Department to
commemorate this flower.
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