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Nymphaea lotus
The Nymphaeaceae are aquatic, rhizomatous herbs. The family is further characterized by scattered vascular bundles in the stems, and frequent presence of latex, usually with distinct, stellate-branched sclereids projecting into the air canals. Hairs are simple, usually producing mucilage (slime). Leaves are alternate and spiral, opposite or occasionally whorled, simple, peltate or nearly so, entire to toothed or dissected, short to long Petiole (botanyiolate), with blade submerged, floating or emergent, with palmate to pinnate venation. Stipules are either present or absent. Flowers are solitary, bisexual, radial, with a long pedicel and usually floating or raised above the surface of the water, with girdling vascular bundles in receptacle.Tepals are 4-12, distinct to connate, imbricate, and often petal-like. Petals lacks or 8 to numerous, inconspicuous to showy, often intergrading with stamens. Stamens are 3 to numerous, the innermost sometimes represented by staminodes. Filaments are distinct, free or adnate to petaloid staminodes, slender and well differentiated from anthers to laminar and poorly differentiated from anthers; pollen grains usually monosulcate or lacking apertures. Carpels are 3 to numerous, distinct or connate. Fruit is an aggregate of nuts, a berry, or an irregularly dehiscent fleshy capsule. Seeds are often arillate, more or less lacking endosperm.
Description and habitat information was referenced from Wikipedia website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaeacea...
AshishNimkar I've uploaded another picture that shows the leaves in better detail. I'm going back to Rexburg, ID tomorrow and I could take a close up of a leaf if this picture doesn't help you in identifying the species.
Will you take picture with its leafs ? and upload as separate picture in this spotting. With leafs its helpful to tell exact specie.
I'm sorry AshishNimkar however this is the whole picture. I do not use any Photoshop or cropping on any of my photographs.
alampietti13 I actually took this photograph right after it rained.
This photograph was captured within the horticulture gardens at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho. The pond was build by the students of BYU-I Department of Horticulture who also maintain the plant species within.
Spotted on Aug 1, 2011
Submitted on Aug 17, 2011
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