BEAUTIFUL WATER LILY

Do you know what is water lily? The Water Lily, also known as Nymphaeaceae or "water lily family", is a family of flowering plants and can be found throughout the world. The white water lily is the national flower of Bangladesh. All water lily are beautiful and what fun facts can we find from water lily? The water lily is a big balanced plant that floats above the water. Usually the lily has white female flowers and also pink male flowers. The flowers are the size of soccer balls. The plants come from seeds that come from water that rises 10 cm a day. Soon it will produce 5-10 leaves a month. The large lilies provide food for fish and wildlife. It only lasting only a few days. Some of the flower open during the day and close at night, others the opposite. Most of them are pollinated by beetles. The Yellow Lilys roots are sometimes consumed. White Lilys roots are useful to treat sore mouths. The smoke from a few lilies burning roots has been used to repel bugs. The American Indians made flour out of dried roots by pounding them. The flour was then baked into pancakes. The young leaves and flower buds were eaten as vegetables, seeds eaten fried. The lotus is a plant that is just like the water lily. The lotus has leaves that float above the surface and is held above the water on long stalks. The lotus is a plant group made up of mainly herbs and subshrubs.

Besides being the birth flower for July, the Blue Water Lily is also the celebrated national flower of Sri Lanka, a country off the southeastern shoreline of India. Water Lilies are famous around the world and it is different in different countries. The Fragrant Water Lily (Nymphaeodorata) has a unique pollination strategy. On the first day that the flower blooms, its pollen is not yet released, and instead, a fluid fills the center of the flower, covering the female parts. Should an insect visit the flower, the design of the petals causes it to fall into the fluid. If the insect is covered in pollen, the pollen dissolves in the fluid and fertilizes the flower. The next day, no fluid is produced, and pollen is released instead. The insect that falls into the fluid usually emerges unharmed, although a few unlucky ones may be trapped and drown. A few days after the Water Lily flower is pollinated, the flower stem tightens in a spiralling spring to bring the flower head underwater. The fruit develops underwater into a spongy berry with many seeds that are enclosed in arils. When ripe, up to 2,000 seeds are released from each fruit. Young seeds float as they contain air pockets. They are then dispersed by water currents or by water birds that eat them. As they become waterlogged, they sink into the mud to germinate. The plant also spreads by sprouting from the creeping rhizomes. The flat round leaves have a waxy water-repellent upper side. The underside, however, seems to cling to the water by surface tension. Some Water Lilies leaves are purple underneath, the pigments helping to concentrate the sunlight to maximize photosynthesis. The leaf stem is hollow and transports air from the surface to the underwater rhizomes, which can grow to a massive size. Water Lilies grow best in calm freshwater.