By Jackie Wullschläger - Author, Monet: The Restless Vision Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond ... unusual for landscape pictures. A burst of dazzling light streams down from the top, twists ...

Its six pools, located outside the new West Conservatory, include nearly 100 varieties of tropical and hardy waterlilies, lotus plants and water platters – lily pads that can stretch as wide as ...

Victoria water lily leaves stretch up to eight feet wide, big enough to be seen from space. But how much can these thin leaves hold? Denver Botanic Gardens asked that with its water lily weigh-off ...

This is not the meditative calm of earlier water lily paintings. It’s a storm brewing under the surface — a grappling not just with water and reflection, but also with deeper themes of time ...

The giant Victoria water lily held 142 pounds of sand in the Missouri Botanical Garden's strength contest. (Video: Denver Botanic Gardens) “They really look like they’re from an alien planet ...

The constructed water lily pond on Monet’s Giverny property was an object of his fascination, and he painted it en plein air over 250 times across four decades. The composition owned by PAM ...

For botanist Edward Read, it was worth it. Cultivating a massive Amazonian water lily in a modest concrete basin has been his labor of love. Since 2017, Read, who is Cal State Fullerton’s ...

The smallest water lily in the world, Nymphaea thermarum, its flower about the size of a fingernail, had become one of Kew Gardens’ prized possessions. In 2014, it was stolen from the gardens .

A new study uncovers that the NpCIPK6–NpSnRK1–NpNCED2 molecular module in water lily stigmas interferes with abscisic acid (ABA) synthesis, leading to reactive oxygen species (ROS ...

In a recent discovery poised to enhance agricultural resilience, scientists have demystified the elaborate cold resistance mechanisms of the white water lily—a plant that flourishes in the ...