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9 unusual facts about Nymphaeaceae


Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum

The complex consists of several buildings and glass-houses, such as the Cactus Pavilion and the Pavilion Victoria (which features a collection of orchids, carnivorous plants and giant white water lily Victoria-Seerosen).

Beverley Brook

Beverley Brook creates a water feature used by deer, smaller animals and water grasses and some water lilies in Richmond Park (where it is followed by the Tamsin Trail and Beverley Walk).

Codman House

The grounds have been farmed almost continuously since 1735 and now also include an Italian garden, circa 1899, with perennial beds, statuary, and a reflecting pool filled with waterlilies, as well as an English cottage garden, circa 1930.

Hrdlív

Nowadays it features in municipal symbols, together with silver leaves of water lily from arms of the Martinic family.

Red-eyed Damselfly

Males typically spent much of their time perched the leaves of floating vegetation such as water lilies or mats of algae.

Ropotamo

The lower Ropotamo is a popular tourist attraction because of the water lilies and the rock formations above the river, on some of which white-tailed eagles nest.

Starve Hollow State Recreation Area

Aquatic vegetation, such as lilly pads Nymphaeaceae and cattails among other types, covers much of the lake, especially in the northern and eastern areas of the lake.

Tunasan River

The tunasan received media attention in 1994 and 1995 due to a series of "fishkills" caused by the high Biochemical Oxygen Demand from decomposing water lilies, and by the profusion of residential wastes that find their way into the river during the rainy season.

Velakali

One such legend talks of the sage Narada witnessing Lord Krishna and his friends staging a mock battle on the banks of the Kalindi using the stalks and leaves of the water lily as swords and shields.


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Nelumbo

Traditional classification systems recognized Nelumbo as part of the Nymphaeaceae (water lily) family, but traditional taxonomists were likely misled by evolutionary convergences associated with an evolutionary shift from a terrestrial to an aquatic lifestyle.

Qian shi

Euryale ferox (pinyin: qiàn shí; simplified: 芡实; traditional: 芡實; also known as "fox nut"), a plant in the Nymphaeaceae (water lily) family

Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary

Suchindram pond has a large variety of aquatic vegetation including water lilly, lotus, floating hearts, pistia and other water plants.


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