| Large Blue Water Lily |
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| File size | 620611 |
| Original date | 11/14/16 11:34 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX L29 |
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Botanical name: Nymphaea gigantea Family: Nymphaeaceae (Waterlily family)
Synonyms: Castalia gigantea, Victoria fitzroyana
Synonyms: Castalia gigantea, Victoria fitzroyana
Large Blue Water Lily is perennial aquatic plant
with small tubers. Leaves are circular with a radial slit, up to 75 cm
diameter, margins toothed with pointed, regularly-spaced teeth to about
5 mm long. Flowers are emergent, to 25 cm in diameter and standing up
to 50 cm above the water surface. Sepals are 4, green with a bluish
tinge on the margins. Petals are usually lilac-blue when young,
gradually fading to light blue, almost white. Stamens are not petaloid.
Ovary is spherical; lobes numerous, short, entirely stigmatic. Seeds
are red, maturing grey, carunculate and with rows of white hairs. Large
Blue Water Lily is native to Australia.
| Identification credit: Krishna Pratap Singh | Photographed in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. |
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