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(Carl S. Gutekunst) Has Moved

Amazon Water Lily at the Conservatory Of Flowers San Francisco. Yes indeed, those enormous circular leaves all support the one flower in the center.

(As long as I was already here, I thought I should share some photos of the lily itself.)

A pink and white flower with many petals — an Amazon Water Lily — floats on a pond.
A pink and white flower with many petals — an Amazon Water Lily — floats on a pond surrounded by its own gigantic leaves.
A pond covered with the giant circular leaves of an Amazon Water Lily.
A close-up of a single leaf of an Amazon Water Little. The leaf is over 2 feet across, a perfect circle with a 3" lip at the edge. The lip is covered with nasty looking spikes to ward of predators.
#BloomScrolling#Flowers#FlowerPhotography
Jul 26, 2023, 05:51 AM·Public·Web
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