Friday Flower Blogging (a bit late)

[ellarien]

Lotus Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, July 2006

There was a big array of potted lotus plants outside the gate of the Institute, where the meeting was taking place.

It's actually quite late Saturday evening here, but only morning in Tucson. I'd have done it this morning, but I ran out of internet and battery before I got to it.

Comments

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Oh, how beautiful. I love the texture of the petals and the leaves.

[ellarien]

Thank you! They're quite spectacular flowers -- teacup-sized, with leaves the size of dinner plates. One of the tour guides told us the seeds are eaten for medicinal purposes, and we saw vendors selling the seed pods. Those were a couple of inches across, so either they grow bigger after the petals drop, or they came from really, really big flowers.