Exotic Beauty (101) : Egyptian White Waterlilly
The past years 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 tiger lotus
Dutch name : Egyptische witte lotus (ook tijgerlotus genaamd)
German name : Tigerlotus
Latin name : Nymphaea lotus
Country of origin : East Africa and Southeast Asia
Gaby Falkenberg 18/01/2017 15:03
Wunderschön die Lotosblüte,sehr gut die Gestaltung.LG.Gaby
Norbert Kappenstein 17/01/2017 18:33
Herrliche Blüten sind das, wunderschönes Bild.LG Norbert
Charly Charity 16/01/2017 9:03
Wundervoll!*****lg Dagmar
Natalie16 15/01/2017 21:48
Very fine image! It is very beautiful!BR, Natalie
Diana V. P. 15/01/2017 19:20
Wunderschön sieht die Lotusblüte aus... Schärfe, Farben und Präsentation sind TOP!!Liebe Grüße
Diana
de ceulaer 15/01/2017 19:16
Wonderful and amazing shotBr
A. Lötscher -Bergjäger- 15/01/2017 17:24
Einfach wunderschön dieses Licht und die Farben!!!LG Bergjäger
Sylvia Schulz 15/01/2017 16:45
eine herrliche Ansicht dieser hübschen Lotusblüte,LG Sylvia
TeresaM 14/01/2017 20:01
Originale et belle vision que tu as mise en valeur.Un excellent point de vue coloré & fleuri !
Amitiés & bon weekend !
ClaireLaira 14/01/2017 19:57
very precious these beautiful bright yellow flowers .... splendid light, and your image so sharp in its details !!!kind regards, Claire
Gerlinde Gottschalk 14/01/2017 18:14
Eine Schönheit und in dieser Jahreszeit Balsam für die Seele.LG.Gerlinde
Claudio Micheli 14/01/2017 15:51
....è splendida!Ciao!
Adele D. Oliver 13/01/2017 22:24
a great capture of this beauty with her many pointed petals .... so special alsothose large leaves like plates with serrated edges .... again fantastic light and
colour rendition !!!
best regards,
Adele
Jochen Braband 13/01/2017 20:14
Ganz feines Foto!Sieht mit der Vignette richtig gut aus!
Alles Gute, Jochen
Wolfgang Bazer 13/01/2017 19:57
Ganz ausgezeichnete Aufnahme!LG Wolfgang