Blue Water Lily Pond is a photograph by Brian Harig which was uploaded on May 15th, 2014.
Blue Water Lily Pond
Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in... more
by Brian Harig
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Blue Water Lily Pond
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Brian Harig
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Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains eight large-flowered genera with about 70 species. The genus Nymphaea contains about 35 species in the Northern Hemisphere. The genus Victoria contains two species of giant water lilies endemic to South America. Water lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on the surface. The leaves are round, with a radial notch in Nymphaea and Nuphar, but fully circular in Victoria.
Water lilies are a well studied clade of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants, and later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts. Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated. Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.
Horticulturally water lilies have been hybridized for temperate gardens since the nineteenth century, and the hybrids are divided into three groups: hardy, night-blooming tropical, and day-blooming tropical water lilies. Hardy water lilies are hybrids from the subgenus Castalia; night-blooming tropical water lilies are developed from the subgenus Lotos; and the day-blooming tropical plants arise from hybridization of plants of the Brachyceras Casp. subgenus
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Katie Dobies
Beautiful colors, movement, and reflection of light, Brian. Featured in UNLIMITED NATURE on 9.24.22.
Robyn King
Congratulations Brian your amazing artwork is being featured in Over 5000 Views:-) Please take a moment to add your beautiful art to our archives in the message area and have a wonderful day!
Gaylord Brubaker
This Blue Water Lily, 72"X48," is my favorite of the 3 pictures I bought. It hangs at the head of my bed, 6" up; it's like the headboard, and it's very calming, and it seduces me to lie down and sleep. Such a beautiful picture. Also, the composition grabbed me and completed my decision process. Though when the package arrived in was severely damaged and looked like the bottom had fallen out and the protective cover on the picture was scratched, as if the picture had been slid across a concrete floor. Though, once hung and the protective cover removed, not a single scratch of any size or shape was on the picture itself. I was relived and very happy. Now that's a true protective cover. Thank-you Brian Harig and the team at Fine Art America. Gaylord Brubaker
Gaylord Brubaker
This Blue Water Lily, 72"X48," is my favorite of the 3 pictures I bought. It hangs at the head of my bed, 6" up; it's like the headboard, and it's very calming, and it seduces me to lie down and sleep. Such a beautiful picture. Also, the composition grabbed me and completed my decision process. Though when the package arrived in was severely damaged and looked like the bottom had fallen out and the protective cover on the picture was scratched, as if the picture had been slid across a concrete floor. Though, once hung and the protective cover removed, not a single scratch of any size or shape was on the picture itself. I was relived and very happy. Now that's a true protective cover. Thank-you Brian Harig and the team at Fine Art America. Gaylord Brubaker
Gaylord Brubaker
This Blue Water Lily, 72"X48," is my favorite of the 3 pictures I bought. It hangs at the head of my bed, 6" up; it's like the headboard, and it's very calming, and it seduces me to lie down and sleep. Such a beautiful picture. Also, the composition grabbed me and completed my decision process. Though when the package arrived in was severely damaged and looked like the bottom had fallen out and the protective cover on the picture was scratched, as if the picture had been slid across a concrete floor. Though, once hung and the protective cover removed, not a single scratch of any size or shape was on the picture itself. I was relived and very happy. Now that's a true protective cover. Thank-you Brian Harig and the team at Fine Art America. Gaylord Brubaker
Gaylord Brubaker
This Blue Water Lily, 72"X48," is my favorite of the 3 pictures I bought. It hangs at the head of my bed, 6" up; it's like the headboard, and it's very calming, and it seduces me to lie down and sleep. Such a beautiful picture. Also, the composition grabbed me and completed my decision process. Though when the package arrived in was severely damaged and looked like the bottom had fallen out and the protective cover on the picture was scratched, as if the picture had been slid across a concrete floor. Though, once hung and the protective cover removed, not a single scratch of any size or shape was on the picture itself. I was relived and very happy. Now that's a true protective cover. Thank-you Brian Harig and the team at Fine Art America. Gaylord Brubaker
Gull G
βArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.β .. Congratulations on your recent sale of an amazing work.
Connie Handscomb
This is really lovely, Brian! youβve captured the awesome beauty of these water lilies in a gorgeous composition;) π
Debra Lynch
Congratulations Brian for your 4th place win in the "Flowers Flowers Flowers Contest." It was so wonderful to see your masterful and lovely images in the contest. Thank you for your entries. L/F/P/Fb Debra
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your win in the Flowers Flowers Flowers End Of Summer Photography contest! l/f
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