Nymphaea alba

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endangered perennial medicinal 2024 1977

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Home Plants angiosperms nymphaeales nymphaeaceae nymphaea Nymphaea alba

1753

white water-lily

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Nymphaea alba, the white waterlily, European white water lily or white nenuphar , is an aquatic flowering plant in the family Nymphaeaceae. It is native to North Africa, temperate Asia, Europe and tropical Asia (Jammu and Kashmir). Since Nymphaceae alba is an aquatic plant, its specialized trichomes are hydropotes, formed at an abaxial surface of the young leaf and packed tightly in the rosette at the rhizome's flattened apex. The rhizomes contain high amounts of carbohydrate and protein. ...read more on Wikipedia.