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Lily of the Incas (Alstroemeria) Such strong connection that language is limited when trying to explain it Alstroemeria (Lily of the Incas) CT: 小百合: Sayuri: Lily (orange) Hatred, revenge Orange lily: 鈴蘭/百合: Suzuran/Yuri: Lily of the Valley/Spider lily: Sweet Lily of the Valley: 鬼百合: Oniyuri: Tiger lily: Wealth Tiger lily ...
The Maya began to use water lily iconography depicted on stelae, monumental architecture, murals, and in hieroglyphic writing. [35] Even in Maya settlements like Palenque , where the main water supplies were springs and flowing streams (places where water lilies cannot grow), the flowers were prevalent in their iconographic records.
It was allegedly in 1867 that a man named John Joshua Jarmain operating from Yokohama became the first commercial exporter of Japanese lilies, [4] though the species of lily is not clarified. The mint exporter Samuel Cocking of Yokohama also exported lilies from the early 1800s, [ 5 ] presumably of the L. auratum species, which is the local ...
Victoria amazonica has very large leaves (and commonly called "pads" or "lily pads"), up to 3 m (10 ft) in diameter, that float on the water's surface on a submerged stalk , 7–8 m (23–26 ft) in length, rivaling the length of the green anaconda, a snake local to its habitat. These leaves are enormously buoyant if the weight is distributed ...
Complete specimen of Nymphaea cf. gardneriana Planch. with several floating leaves, as well as submerged leaves with scale bar (50 cm) on a white background Complete specimen of Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea (Savigny) Verdc. with scale bar (50 cm) on a white background Rhizome of Nymphaea gigantea "Albert De Lestang" with scale bar (5 cm) against a grey background Seeds of Nymphaea alba with ...
Arisaema ringens, the Japanese cobra lily (a name it shares with Arisaema sikokianum), is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, native to the Zhoushan Islands of China, Taiwan, South Korea, central Japan, and the Ryukyu Islands. [1] [2] A tuberous geophyte reaching 45 cm (18 in), in the wild they are found at low elevations in ...
Lilium speciosum is an East Asian species of plants in the lily family. It is native to southern Japan and southern China, where it can be found at elevations of 600–900 metres (2,000–3,000 ft). [1] [2] [3] It is sometimes called the Japanese lily though there are other species with this common name.
A lily pad is the leaf of flowering plants of the Nymphaeaceae family, commonly called water lilies. Lily pad may also refer to: Lily pads, a name for the Cooperative Security Location of U.S. worldwide military facilities; A lily pad network for wireless networking; Lilypad may refer to: LilyPad, an Arduino microcontroller board