Nymphaea odorata Aiton (fragrant water-lily), flowers and leaves
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2004 – 2012
Nymphaea odorata Aiton (fragrant water-lily), rare aquatic wildflower, perennial from a rhizome with or without knotty tubers, leaf blades are 4-12" wide floating peltate rotund and cleft often red or purple beneath, flowers are white 3-8" wide borne at the surface of the water and have numerous stamens (40-100) and numerous ascending petals (15-50)
