Nelumbo
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Taken at the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
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Water lily on a pond with water drops
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Close up of a Pink Lotus Flower, Nelumbo Nucifera
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Lotus Flower taken in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens. / Native to the billabongs of Kakadu and northern billabongs
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Lotus Flower, Nelumbo Nucifera native to Tropical Australia.
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Lotus Flower taken in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens. / Native to the billabongs of Kakadu and northern Australia
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Legal status: No legal status in Canada. / It has not yet been considered by the / Committee on the Status of Endangered / Wildlife in Canada. Threatened in / Michigan. / Global and provincial rank: G4/S2 / Other Common names: Water / chinquapin, yonkapin, yanquapin, / yockernut, alligator button, duck acorn, / volee. / Family: Nelumbonaceae. The Lotus-lily / Family / Total range: N. lutea is native and / widespread in the eastern and central US. / It may have been spread throughout its / present range by First Nations people who / used the seeds and tubers for food. / Provincial distribution: In Ontario N. / lutea is at the extreme northern limit of its / range. It is mainly restricted to marshes / along the shores of the Great Lakes. / Recognition: N. lutea is a perennial, / aquatic herb with a milky juice. Long, / cylindrical, spongy rhizomes grow just / below the substrate surface and produce / starchy tubers during the fall. Tubers are / stout and up to 25 cm long. / Leaves are large (up to 35 cm) and round / to oval with the stalk joined in the middle / of the leaf. Leaves arise directly from the / rhizome and either float on the water / surface, or are held erect above the water. / Picture taken at Canard River which flows into Detroit River, LaSalle, Ontario.
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A Lotus Flower: In the Summer Palace Beijing, China The Summer Palace or Yi he, in Beijing, China / (Traditional Chinese: 頤和園; simplified Chinese: 颐和园; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán; literally; Gardens of Nurtured Harmony) Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy, water lily-like flowers commonly known as lotus or sacred lotus. The generic name is derived from the Sinhalese word Nelum. There are two species in the genus, the better known of which, N. nucifera, or "Sacred Lotus," is the well-known national flower of India. Padma (nelumblum speciosum), the sacred lotus, is an aquatic plant that plays a central role in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The lotus and lotus flower is an ancient polyvalent symbol. The lotus flower is one of the Vajrayana Ashtamangala. It is representative of creation and cosmic renewal and shares in the chakra and mandala symbolism of the Dharmachakra. It also represents purity as its flowers grow on long stalks, which are rooted in the mud. It is also symbolic of detachment as drops of water easily slide off its petals. According to Sanatana Dharma, Padma (the deity and lotus), springs from the navel of Vishnu whilst he is in Yoga Nidra upon Ananta Shesha. The lotus blooms uncovering Brahma in padmasana.[1] The Padma is held to be a flower with a thousand petals and is therefore associated with the Sahasrara and indeed all the chakra. The padma appears as an endemic dais upon which deities rest and indeed upon which Indian iconography is founded. A number of divine figures are associated with the Padma, including Kubera and Lakshmi. The lotus in both Egypt and India symbolizes the union of the four elements; earth, air, fire, and water. The roots are in the earth, it grows in and by means of water, its leaves are nourished by air, and it blooms through the power of the sun’s fire. The lotus is therefore the perfection of the fourfold order of the natural world. The growth of a new flower directly from the earth-bound original (inflorescent proliferation) may be interpreted as a symbol of transcendence as found in Indian philoshophy: a spiritual emergence of a higher world directly from our physical manifestation. It may also be interpreted, as in Egypt, as the exaltation of the essence quality of the lotus.
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A Lotus Flower: In the Summer Palace Beijing, China The Summer Palace or Yi he, in Beijing, China / (Traditional Chinese: 頤和園; simplified Chinese: 颐和园; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán; literally; Gardens of Nurtured Harmony) Nelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy, water lily-like flowers commonly known as lotus or sacred lotus. The generic name is derived from the Sinhalese word Nelum. There are two species in the genus, the better known of which, N. nucifera, or "Sacred Lotus," is the well-known national flower of India. Padma (nelumblum speciosum), the sacred lotus, is an aquatic plant that plays a central role in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The lotus and lotus flower is an ancient polyvalent symbol. The lotus flower is one of the Vajrayana Ashtamangala. It is representative of creation and cosmic renewal and shares in the chakra and mandala symbolism of the Dharmachakra. It also represents purity as its flowers grow on long stalks, which are rooted in the mud. It is also symbolic of detachment as drops of water easily slide off its petals. According to Sanatana Dharma, Padma (the deity and lotus), springs from the navel of Vishnu whilst he is in Yoga Nidra upon Ananta Shesha. The lotus blooms uncovering Brahma in padmasana.[1] The Padma is held to be a flower with a thousand petals and is therefore associated with the Sahasrara and indeed all the chakra. The padma appears as an endemic dais upon which deities rest and indeed upon which Indian iconography is founded. A number of divine figures are associated with the Padma, including Kubera and Lakshmi. The lotus in both Egypt and India symbolizes the union of the four elements; earth, air, fire, and water. The roots are in the earth, it grows in and by means of water, its leaves are nourished by air, and it blooms through the power of the sun’s fire. The lotus is therefore the perfection of the fourfold order of the natural world. The growth of a new flower directly from the earth-bound original (inflorescent proliferation) may be interpreted as a symbol of transcendence as found in Indian philoshophy: a spiritual emergence of a higher world directly from our physical manifestation. It may also be interpreted, as in Egypt, as the exaltation of the essence quality of the lotus.
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