White Water Lily
by Lingfai Leung
Title
White Water Lily
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Photographed in August 2018, Centennial Park, Toronto.
Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera with about 70 known species. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on or emergent from the surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria and Euryale.
The white water lily is the national flower of Bangladesh and state flower for Andhra Pradesh, India. The Emblem of Bangladesh contains a lily floating on water. The blue waterlily is the national flower of Sri Lanka. It is also the birth flower for Pisces.
Featured FAA Image:
- Wisconsin flowers and Scenery, 12/15/2020
- Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer, 12/15/2020
(c) 2018 Lngfai Leung
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August 21st, 2020
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