Nymphaeaceae
Water Lily Family
INTRODUCTION
The Nymphaeaceae Family (Water Lily Family) is an aquatic family and is also one of the smaller families in the Plant Kingdom. It belongs in the Nymphaeales Order, which is composed of three families, nine genera, and roughly 74 species. The other two families that are included in the Nymphaeales order are Cambombaceae and Hymphaeaceae. The Nymphaeaceae Family itself only contains six of the nine genera and roughly 60 species. This family is rather small compared to other families that contain thousands and hundreds of species. Although this family is small in number, visually they are large because of their big leaves or “lily pads” These aquatic plants can be found around the world. They are can
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These flowers also have a wide range of colors; white, yellow, blue, pink, and red. They are bisexual and may either be protogynous, perigynous, or epigenous flowers. The flowers themselves have many stamen and petals depending on the genera that it is a part of. From research the main parts of the flowers that are investigated are the initiation of stamen, sepals, carpels and petals of the flower and also the phyllotaxy or arrangement of the petals and sepals of the flower. Initiation is the way the stamen can be inside of the flower. The initiations of stamens are simultaneously multi-whorled and those of carpels are simultaneously single-whorled in the Nymphaeaceae family (Guang-Wan and others, 2009 ). Furthermore, there are other characteristics of this family that make them quite interesting and this is due to the fact of their blooming and size. This flower can bloom night or day, Nymphaea genera does both, and will become dormant after each blooming and can become up to 15 inches wide, those are mainly found in the Victoria genera. The most important part of the flower is reproduction and pollination. These two actions are different than in other flowering plants because they are submerged in
They grow in temperate and subtropical climates and many are not native to the United Kingdom, they adapt well to our growing conditions and are available freely from local nurseries. Generally, most plants in the Liliaceae family have six segments or tepals. Several have bulbs, some have rhizomes.
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Fruiting heads often remain on trees over winter. Fair seed crops occur every year and bumper crops about every 3 years. The staminate and pistillate of Sweetgum is monoeciouse. The small, greenish flowers bloom from march to early May, depending on latitude and weather conditions. Both the staminate and pistillate flowers occur in heads. The staminate inflorescences are racemes; the solitary pistillate flowers are globose heads that that form the multiple head, 2.5 to 3.8cm in diameter, of small, two-celled capsule. The lustrous green color of the fruiting heads fades to yellow as maturity is reached in September to November. The beaklike capsules open at this time, and the small winged seeds, one or two per capsule, are then readily disseminated by wind. However, the seed balls can be safely collected for seed examination several weeks before ball discoloration occurs without harming the seed. Empty flowers are quit sensitive to cold and often damaged by frost.
...ong, and shorter stalks are 20-100mm long. The flower length from the axils are one to three centimeters long. The optimum flowering time is from May through August. The fruit are pod shaped with seedlings coiled into two to three spirals with a strong net vein three to four millimeters long (montanaplant-life.org).
small flower spears at the 'A' on her mother's chest and when each stalk hits its target
Students will identify and describe explicit effects to causes in fiction. Students will recount sequence of events in fiction.
Vascular plants sequestered large amounts of CO2 through photosynthesis when they first expanded across terrestrial environment, leading to glaciation. Evaluate the claim that a similar glaciation event occurred when the first plants colonized land. Be sure to consider weather or not photosynthesis by these new species alone caused glaciation.
Nymphaeas, an aquatic flowering herb, has been a popular theme in literature, mythology and fine arts throughout history. It bore various symbols in many ancient cultures and have been deciphered by different artists in their own ways. In this essay two paintings of such will be evaluated: Water Lilies by Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Lotus by Chang Dai-chien (1901-1984).
It is important to first explain a few things about the nature of the blue lotus. The blue lotus or water-lily, is a floating aquatic plant that is known for it's colorful and aromatic flowers. The leaves are waxy, leathery and dark green with a reddish-purple color underneath (Edwards, 1998). The genus Nymphaea includes both tropical and hardy (cold-tolerant) species. There are also night-bloomers and day-bloomers. The tropical day- bloomers are the lotus that was used by the Egyptians (Edwards, 1998). The flowers of many species of lotus have the shocking habit of folding their petals and sinking beneath the water's surface during the night and resurfacing the next day to bloom again (Philbrick and Les, 1996).
Despite the beauty in both plants the main differences between daisies and tulips are in their looks. Daisies grow in groups and can range in size up to three feet tall and wide. A daisy is made up of two flowers white petals and a yellow center, although the flower can sometimes have a pink or rose color. The usually white petals count as one flower and the cluster the little yellow disc petals that form the 'eye' is another. Red, flashing orange, sunny yellow and surprisingly
Without accurately knowing all of the accomplishments that Carl Linnaeus has made throughout his life, one is really missing out on all the great research and information that was conducted by him. His whole journey throughout life and contributions to this wonderful world began when Carl was only four years old. He was on a picnic adventure with family and some family friends and his father gathered oodles of wildflowers from around Lake Möckeln in Sweden, which is where they were picnicking. Ever since that day when Nils, Carl’s father, named each of the wildflowers that he had picked to his guests, Carl was determined to learn the names of every plant in and around his hometown (Anderson 9). By the time that young, dedicated Carl became a college student, he had already learned every single name of all the flowers in his home province of Småland and he was still not satisfied. He continued his search of finding and naming even mo...
...icot stem. Label and sketch its parts. Take note of the position of the vascular bundle.
...us. According to the Missouri Botanical Garden this plant is from southern Mexico. It is a epiphyte and is adapted to the very dry environment of the forest canopy. Bone fish cactuses are spineless. The branches look like leaves but are actually a special stem. This plan blooms for just a few nights each year. Its blooms are a fragrant pale yellow. Then there is also gnetum. This is a vine plant. It does not bloom. Gnetum is one of the gymnosperms or vascular plants that bear exposed seeds. There are many other gymnosperms like cycads, gingkos, and conifers. Gnetum is a vine and has large leaves(mbgnet.net).
Pollination is a natural process which involves the transfer of pollen grains from the anthers (male part of a flower) to the Stigma (female part).There are two types of Pollination depending on their method by which they were pollinated. They are self-Pollination and cross-Pollination. Self-Pollination is within the same plant, whether biotic or abiotic. Cross-Pollination is between different plants of same species. Unlike Self-Pollination, Cross-Pollination alters genes producing healthier individuals.