Pimpernel, also known as the golden lotus, for the water lily (details) family pimpernel plants, is a very important ornamental plants in the summer water garden, usually open in early summer. Pimpernel not only can be used for ornamental purposes, its stem can also be used as medicine, the economic value is very high.

Pimpernel

Pimpernel is a perennial aquatic herb; rhizome diameter 2-3 cm. Leaves papery, broadly ovate or ovate, a few elliptic, 6-17 centimeters long, 6-12 centimeters wide, apex rounded, base with a curved notch, cordate, lobes away, rounded, shiny and glabrous above, densely pilose below, lateral veins pinnate, a few times dichotomously branched; petioles 20-50 centimeters long, with pilose. Flowers 3-4 cm in diam.; pedicel 40-50 cm long, pilose; sepals yellow, outside central green, rectangular or elliptic, 1-2 cm long; petals narrowly cuneate, 5-7 mm long, apex retuse; stigma disk often 10-lobed, yellowish or reddish. Berry ovate, ca. 3 cm; seeds rectangular, 5 mm, brown. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.

Chinese name: Pimpernel

Latin name: Nuphar pumilum (Hoffm.) DC. Kingdom: Plantae

Plantae: Angiosperms

Family: Waterlily

Genus: Pimpernel

Species: Golden Lotus, Pimpernel
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