purple and pink petaled flower near white rock surrounded by water, lupins, lake tekapo, nz HD wallpaper

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2400 x 1434

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1.04MB

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1080P

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image/jpeg

Uploaded:

2017-12-07

Wallpaper keywords:

• Russell,
• Lupins,
• Lake Tekapo,
• NZ,
• purple,
• pink,
• flower,
• white rock,
• water,
• New Zealand,
• Public Domain,
• Dedication,
• CC0,
• geo tagged,
• photos,
• nature,
• summer,
• blue,
• plant,
• scenics,
• beauty In Nature,
• outdoors
• landscape

Wallpaper dominant color:

• cadet blue
• dim gray
• dark slate gray

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About lupins

Lupinus, commonly known as lupin or lupine (North America), is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. The genus includes over 200 species, with centers of diversity in North and South America. Smaller centers occur in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Seeds of various species of lupins have been used as a food for over 3000 years around the Mediterranean and for as much as 6000 years in the Andean highland (Uauy et al., 1995), but they have never been accorded the same status as soybeans or dry peas and other pulse crops. The pearl lupin of the Andean highlands of South America, Lupinus mutabilis, known locally as tarwi or chocho, was extensively cultivated, but no conscious genetic improvement other than to select for larger and water-permeable seeds seems to have b

About lake tekapo

Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau). It covers an area of 83 square kilometres (32 sq mi), and is at an altitude of 700 metres (2,300 ft) above sea level. An astronomical observatory is located at Mount John, which is to the north of the town, and south of the small Lake Alexandrina.