Amazonian vitoria regia lacustrine rose Nymphaeace by einsiedler (2010)

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Description The water lily or victria-royal (Amazonian vitoria regia) it is an aquatic plant of the family of Nymphaeaceae, typical of the Amazonian area. It possesses a great leaf in circle form, that is on the surface of the water, and can have up to 2,5 meters of diameter and up to 40 kilos if they go well distruibudos in its surface. Flower happens since the beginning of March to July it is white and just opens up at night, starting from the six hours of the afternoon, and they expel a divine night fragrance sweetened of the apricot, called by the Europeans of 'lacustrine rose', stay open until approximately the nine hours of the morning of the following day. In the second day, the one of the pollination, the flower is rose color. As soon as the flowers open up, its fort odor attracts the beetles polinizadors (cyclocefalo casteneaea), that penetrate it and in them they are prisoners. Today the control exists for new technologies (manuring and hormonios)em that it is possible to control the size of the plates and with that it is very used in the urban paisagism so much in great lakes and small mirrors of water.

einsiedler
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