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Waterlilly

Nymphaea sp.

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Field Notes

Description:

Stunning pale pink waterlillies held up from the water surface on medium length stalks, with nearby round flat leaves floating on water surface, flowers have bright yellow centres and delicate perfume, tips of each petal a darker shade of pink. Waterlillies are aquatic plants, of which there are many varieties, growing from rhizomes. Flowers are insect pollinated and the plant bears fruit also held up on a stalk. Flowers most commonly open during sunlit hours, closing at night or when heavy cloud covers the sun. Some species open only at night.

Habitat:

Found throughout Australia, and other countries, growing in mostly still water. These ones growing in creek system dammed by human intervention.

Notes:

Dragonflies find the lilly flowers and pads (leaves) very useful for resting on - a mating pair can be seen on the large leaf in this photo.

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Comments (3)

Thank you SukanyaDatta and venusflytrap2000 for your comments. Waterlillies are blooming well at the moment. There's usually a few flowering all year but the season when mass blooms happen creates a spectacular scene on the water.
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PublishedApril 28, 2014

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