Hai Guys...
It really has been a super long time
since I last visited this blog..
So busy as always..
today in between businest..
Just got to and
Just want to share about a wonderful place which you guys should check out.
Can u imagine Giant Water Lily on top
of 1-Utama Shopping Complex
here in Bandar Utama City Center???
Oh my... funny thing is that I heard about it for sometimes and
always come to the mall so many times,
always come to the mall so many times,
but never had the chance to see it..
So last week my girls &
I decided to check it out.....
I decided to check it out.....
WOWWWW....
It is like a new discovery and sense of happiness at having found a green and environmental friendly place right here in a busy shopping centre..
The place is called
The Secret Garden of One Utama..
We will talk about this later in another NTree
but for now I just wanna share about..
THE AMAZING GIANT LILY
VICTORIA AMAZONICA...
This is the pond that houses the VICTORIA AMAZONICA, the world's largest water lily plant.
It natural habitat is the pond and lagoons deep in the forest tribulatories of the Amazon River...
The flower itself is white and only blooms at night.
The colour of the lily changes however when it is pollinated to a pinky purple
The most interesting thing about this flower is the large leaves that it creates.
The leaves are flat before growing rims at the edge of the leaf.
The leaves are strong and stiff thanks to the strong bottom of the leaves.
The bottoms are covered with spines to help support the ribs.
also to protect itself from fishes and other predator that might want to eat it.
The rim around the edges of the leaves helps to protect the leaf from birds and insects
that might want to eat the leaves
The bottom of the leaf is maroon in color.
Geram tengok Lily niii..
tapi jauh ke tengah sangat!!!!!!!!
No I'm not gonna pluck it
just wondering
how does it smells..?????
Well,
I guess I should not put too much spoilers
in this one post,
It's truly amazing and its best that you go
see and enjoy it for yourself.
I believe it will be even awesome when all the flowers bloom..
Haaa this time mesti lagi best
especially for photography...
I'm going there again with my Camera...
the photos above are all captured using my old Iphone..
but still looks nice right??
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What is the Giant Water Lily?
Victoria is a genus of water-lilies, in the plant family Nymphaeaceae, with very large green leaves that lie flat on the water's surface.Victoria amazonica has a leaf that is up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter, on a stalk 7–8 m (22.9-26.2 ft) in length. The genus name was given in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Victoria amazonica is native to the shallow waters of the Amazon River basin, such as oxbow lakes and bayous. It is depicted in theGuyanese coat of arms. The flowers are white the first night they are open and become pink the second night. They are up to 40 cm in diameter, and are pollinated by scarab beetles.
Another species, Victoria cruziana, in the Parana-Paraguay basin, is only slightly smaller, with the underside of the leaves purple rather than the red of V. amazonica, and covered with a peachlike fuzz lacking in V. amazonica. V. cruziana opens its flowers at dusk.
The first published description of the genus was by John Lindley in 1837, based on specimens returned from British Guiana by Robert Schomburgk. Lindley named the genus after the new Queen, Victoria, and the species Victoria regia. An earlier account of the species,Euryale amazonica Poeppig, in 1832 described an affinity with Euryale ferox. A collection and description was also made by the French botanist Aimé Bonpland in 1825.[1][2]
The leaf of Victoria is able to support quite a large weight due to the plant's structure, although the leaf itself is quite delicate: so much so that "a straw held 6 inches above and dropped perpendicularly upon it would readily pass through it".[3] To counter the fragile nature of the leaf, the weight needs to be distributed across the surface through mechanical means, such as a sheet of plywood. This allows the leaf to support up to 70 pounds.[3]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
