Nature Photo Challenge: Water Plants

Nymphaea are rhizomatous, submerged aquatic perennials with floating, rounded leaves and showy, sometimes fragrant, cup- or bowl-shaped flowers in a wide range of colours, held on or above the water and followed by submerged, berry-like fruits.

These water-lilies are in Kew Garden’s Victorian Waterlily House completed in 1852, which was  specifically to showcase the giant Amazon waterlily (Victoria amazonica) – a natural wonder of the age.

The Nelumbonaceae (Lotus-lily) are from Sydney’s Botanic Garden (Australia) in the main and waterlily ponds close to the Palm Grove Centre.

Lotus flowers are considered sacred in China, Tibet and India and the lotus flower is symbolic in Hindu and Buddhist religions as lotus displays all the different stages of growth simultaneously – bud, flower and seed pod.

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #21 | Water Plants