Teratai Gergasi Dari Amerika Selatan (36 photos)

abgsedapmalam · Post time 2-6-2012 09:32 PM

Victoria Regia Amazonia - an amazing, mysterious locality in South America.

It was there that grows famous Victoria Regia - a huge water lily, on a sheet that can hold even an adult.

Its present name was lily in the XIX century, when it was opened. In 1836, the German traveler, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, in the service of the United Kingdom, explored the forests of South America. It was he who discovered the mysterious plant. Just then the English throne went to the young Queen Victoria, was interested in botany.
Her name Schomburgk and named his discovery: "Victoria Regal."

Royal flower is the night "lifestyle" - its snow-white flowers bloom at sunset, and closed at dawn and hide under the water. At exactly two o'clock they again appear on the surface of the pond - now pink or reddish. And in the evening finally die. Here is a short duration joy.

Colombian Indians in the dialect of this plant is called "upon," which means "Bird pan" because two-meter water leaves the plant have a flat circular shape with curved edges.
In such a floating leaf child can walk completely without fear - he did not sag.

Residents of the Amazon, except for aesthetic pleasure, receive from the Victoria regii and quite tangible benefits - the root of the plant is dried, milled and baked from this flour a variety of goodies.

There are the natives and the legend associated with the water lily. She says that the chief's daughter Naja learned one day that heaven sometimes takes a month to wife ordinary girls. They learn the joy of love with him on the high hills, and then lose their frail shell and become stars. Naya thirsted months and love for a long time at night, wandering through the hills, trying to attract the attention of her lover. Nothing came of it. And then maddened by love, she saw the reflection in the lake the night lights, rushed into the water.

But the month was androgynous deity, and the second part - a good moon - took pity on the girl, she turned her into a beautiful flower and the leaves made a huge, to the night they got it as much as possible lunar affection. And to protect the plant supplied with thorns, which are dotted with stems and leaves of the other side.