"THE SKY WAS MIDNIGHT BLUE LIKE, WARM , DEEP, BLUE WATER, AND THE MOON SEEMED TO LIE ON IT LIKE A WATER LILY FLOATING FORWARD WITH AN INVISIBLE CURRENT"
- WILLA CATHER
"Blue like sky and white like ice the two sisters and the true lovers of moon"
Often a woman's face is compared to a white lily and the complexion of Lord Krishna to that of a blue waterlily.
Waterlilies are aquatic plants found in temperate and tropical climate throughout the world.
The plant is rooted in the soil inside the water body and leaves and flowers of the plant float on the surface of the water.
It bears round leaves (with a notch in some species) and big single flowers with long pedicel.
The white lilies bloom only during night and close with sunrise whereas the blue lilies blooms in morning and close at dusk.
These fragrant flowers remain for 2 to 3 days and are then shed leaving berry-like fruits.
Though they were considered as weeds , now a days they are increasingly used as ornamental plants.
White waterlily is the national flower of Bangladesh and blue waterlily is the national flower of Sri Lanka, also the state flower of Andhra Pradesh(India).
In literatures and poetics ,they are symbolic of the grief of separation, separation from her lover moon...
- WILLA CATHER
"Blue like sky and white like ice the two sisters and the true lovers of moon"
Often a woman's face is compared to a white lily and the complexion of Lord Krishna to that of a blue waterlily.
Waterlilies are aquatic plants found in temperate and tropical climate throughout the world.
The plant is rooted in the soil inside the water body and leaves and flowers of the plant float on the surface of the water.
It bears round leaves (with a notch in some species) and big single flowers with long pedicel.
These fragrant flowers remain for 2 to 3 days and are then shed leaving berry-like fruits.
- They provide habitat and food for many aquatic animals.
- In china , the lily buds are used in Chinese cuisines.
- The rhizome used for fevers,cleaning wounds and sores.
- Fibers from water lilies used in textiles and handicrafts.
- Flowers used in rituals and scared purposes.
Though they were considered as weeds , now a days they are increasingly used as ornamental plants.
White waterlily is the national flower of Bangladesh and blue waterlily is the national flower of Sri Lanka, also the state flower of Andhra Pradesh(India).
In literatures and poetics ,they are symbolic of the grief of separation, separation from her lover moon...
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