Is it easy to grow water lilies?

A nickname for water lilies

Meridian, pink water lilies, wild water lilies, dwarf water lilies, dwarf water lilies

Morphological characteristics of water lilies

The leaves of water lilies are round or nearly round, or they may be oval, while some varieties are lanceolate or arrow-shaped; the leaves are entire, but the leaf edges of tropical water lilies are wavy; the leaves are green, bright, and purplish red on the back; the pages of some varieties have dark brown spots or mottled colors; the veins may be obvious and may not be obvious. On the other hand, the leaves of a few varieties of tropical water lilies grow small plants between the tip of the great cleft and the petiole, which is commonly known as "viviparous".

The flower of water lily consists of sepals, petals, pistils and stamens, style, carpel, flower stalk and other organs. Flowers solitary, bisexual. Sepals are about 4-5, green or purplish red, with black spots in the green, lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or rectangular round. The bud is long peach-shaped, peach-shaped; petals are usually ovate, broadly ovate, oblong, rectangular, etc., petals are more pointed, or slightly obtuse. The colors are red, pink, blue, purple, white and so on. Petals are single, multipetal, double. Therefore, the size, shape and color of petals vary from variety to variety. From then on, it formed a gorgeous state. The ovary is superior to the periphery, and the stamens are wrapped above the carpels before flowering and open into a sickle shape after maturity; sepals, petals and stamens are spirally arranged above the receptacle and ovary wall. Carpels are arranged in rings and embedded in the receptacle and are connate, the upper style is separated, the stigma is filiform, with milky protrusions as the center, showing a funnel-shaped, secreting stigmas at maturity, while stigmas mainly contain glucose, candy, and amino acids to attract insects to pollinate.

The fruit of water lily is irregular to hemispherical, mature in water, irregular and dehiscent; seeds are small, oval or spherical; most of them have aril.

Water lily is a perennial floating leaf-shaped aquatic herb, the rhizome is relatively thick, treated or creeping.

The flowery language of water lilies

Like Chinese lotus flowers, water lilies are regarded as the embodiment of holiness and beauty, and are often sacrificed to goddesses. In the New Testament, there is also a saying that "holy things come out of the mud without being stained."