Saturday, July 26, 2008

Amazing Water Lily


Water lily is considered as one of the ancient flowering species on Earth. At the time of origin, water lilies were one among first two branches on the family tree of flowering plants. Their origins go back over 140 million years, while dinosaurs were still living on the Earth. Thus, water lilies became living fossils linking ages of extinct dinosaurs with modern age of human beings.

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