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the diva that grows from mud and refuses to mention it.
means An aquatic flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae whose round leaves and showy blossoms float on the surface of still or slow-moving water.
from A plain English compound of "water" and "lily," stitched together to name a flower that lives where lilies normally wouldn't. "Lily" itself comes through Old English lilie from Latin lilium, a word possibly borrowed from some lost Mediterranean tongue. Botanists call it Nymphaeaceae after the nymphs of Greek myth — water spirits who haunted exactly the kind of ponds where these blooms hold court.
- heat trick
- some bloom warm to lure pollinators inside
- closing time
- many flowers shut and sink at night
- monet's muse
- painted them over 250 times
- giant leaves
- victoria pads hold a small child
- ancient lineage
- among earliest flowering plants on Earth
victoria amazonica — giant amazonian water lily with leaves up to 3 meters across, discovered in bolivia in 1801
monet's water lilies — series of 250+ paintings by claude monet of his garden pond at giverny, france, 1890-1926
sacred lotus — revered water lily across india, egypt, and asia; national flower of india and vietnam