The beautiful, lush bloom of the lotus flower

The pinyin of Nymphaea odorata is: hàn dàn wēi ruí, and the ancient name for the unopened lotus flower is Nymphaea odorata, or lotus bud. Weiwei is a Chinese word that refers to the drooping of the leaves of a luxuriant branch of grass or tree, to feather ornaments, to beauty and splendor, to weakness, to wilting, to locks, to an ancient type of jewelry, and to the name of the grass, Nymphaea. Nymphaea leucocephala is connected to the beautiful, lush bloom of the lotus.

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Morphological Characteristics of Nymphaea

Flowers are solitary at the top of the pedicel, high above the water surface, with a diameter of 10-20 cm, beautiful and fragrant; there are single, compound, double and heavy platforms; the flower color varies from white, pink, crimson, lilac, yellow, or intermediate colors.

The lotus leaves are rectangular-elliptic to obovate, 5-10 centimeters long, 3-5 centimeters wide, tapering from the outside to the inside, sometimes into the stamens, the apex is rounded or pointed, and most of the stamens.

The pistil is free, buried in the obconical spongy receptacle, the surface of the receptacle with a majority of scattered honeycomb-shaped holes, gradually expanding after fertilization is called a rosette, each hole contains a nutlet (lotus seed); anthers bar-shaped, filaments slender, inserted under the receptacle; style very short, stigma terminal; receptacle (rosette) diameter 5-10 cm.