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Exotic Beauty (95) : Indian Red Water Lily

Exotic Beauty (95) : Indian Red Water Lily

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Mark Billiau.

Mark Billiau.


Premium (World), region Antwerp, Belgium

Exotic Beauty (95) : Indian Red Water Lily

Last year I made several visits to the conservatories of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium where 10.000 (!) plant and tree species originating from the tropics and the subtropics are growing in the greenhouses over there.

Thanks to the warm and moist climate in the conservatories and the intensive maintenance, it’s really amazing what an immense great variety of exotic flowers from all over the world can be seen there, even in the cold winter season !
Flowers whose natural habitat is situated in the rainforest, the mountain forest, isolated islands, deserts, etc……. Places that most of us will never or seldom visit.
Some of the flowers are very rare, extremely colourful or specially shaped.
Others were introduced in Europe by men and became a cultivated species or an ornamental houseplant.

I selected the –to my personal taste- most beautiful flowers that I saw there and made a series of them.

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In English also known as Crimson water lily
Dutch name : Indische rode waterlelie
German name : Rote Seerose (auch Ägyptische Lotusblume genannt)
Latin name : Nymphaea rubra

Country of origin : Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, northeastern Australia and Papua New Guinea.

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flowers nature exotic flowers rote seerose exotic beauty indian red water lily crimson water lily indische rode waterlelie ägyptische lotusblume nymphaea rubra

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