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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 ...
The Emblem of Bangladesh contains a lily floating on water. It is also the birth flower for the month of July. The Nymphaeaceae, which is also called (Nilufar Abi in Persian), can be seen in many reliefs of the Achaemenid period (552 BC) such as the statue of Anahita in the Persepolis.
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A woman standing on a leaf of Victoria cruziana in the lily pond in front of the Linnaean House of the Missouri Botanical Garden. A wooden plank and a towel is placed on the pad to distribute the weight over the leaf's surface.
Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus, tiger lotus, white lotus, or Egyptian water-lily, [3] is a flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae. Distribution [ edit ]
1. You Wear Out Your Entire Wardrobe. Big shoulder pads looked of-the-moment on Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl," but you're still holding onto — and wearing — your power suit.
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