Dream hunter
Vulpes_No9There are many interesting plants, but the plant called Rheumnobile seems to be formidable. In the Himalayan alpine region, this plant grows up to 2 meters, and the leaves surround the seeded fruit to create a kind of greenhouse, so the inside is kept 10 degrees higher than the surrounding temperature.
Rheum Nobile
Plate by
Witch 1855
The present is certainly the most striking of the many fine alpine plants of Sikkim I first saw it from
a distance of fully a mile dotting the black cliffs of the Lachen valley at 14000 feet elevation in inac
cessible situations and wasamined the flowers that I was persuaded of its being a true
Rhubart
Joseph Hooker
Tlustrations of Himalayan Plants
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