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Water lily (scientific name: Nymphaea L.) is a perennial aquatic herb with thick rhizome.

Petiole cylindrical, slender.

The leaves are oval, floating on the water surface, whole edge, heart-shaped at the base, dark green on the surface and dark purple on the back.

Leaf type 2: Floating leaves are round or ovate, with a curved base, heart-shaped or arrow-shaped, and often have no emerging leaves; submersing leaves are thin and fragile.

The flowers are solitary, floating or emerging from the water; the calyxes are four, green; the petals are usually eight.

The fruit is obovate, about 3 cm long.

The flowers are large and beautiful, floating on or above the water, blooming during the day and closing at night; the sepals are close to each other; the petals are white, blue, yellow or pink, in multiple whorls, sometimes the inner whorl gradually turns into stamens; there are or

No appendages; carpel annular, adnate and half-submerged in the fleshy cup-shaped receptacle, and partially united with it in the lower part, the upper part extends into style, stigma becomes concave in the stigma disk, ovules are anatroptous, hanging on the inner wall of the ovary

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The berries are spongy, irregularly cracked, and mature under the water; the seeds are hard, wrapped in gelatin, and have fleshy cup-shaped arils. The embryos are small, with a small amount of endosperm and abundant ectosperm.