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Season of Lotus Opens in Primorye

06:45, 23.07.2008

English version / Приморский край

VLADIVOSTOK. 23 July. VOSTOK-MEDIA. Season of flowering lotus opens in Primorye. Annually it attracts thousands citizens and guests of the Krai. Festivals and performances are held in honor of this unique flower, informs the tourist portal Shamora.info. Tour agencies of Vladivostok and Primorskiy Krai offer different tours for all visitors who want to watch flowering lotus. Blooming season of lotus starts in the middle of July up to mid August.
Lotus is a pearl of the Far East, named in the Red List. They grow in the basin of Amur along the downstream of Ussuri, in the lake Hanka, on the island Putyatin and in Shmakovka. Primorskiy Krai is the area of a lotus specie known as the “Komarov’s Lotus”. Flower is a relic remained since the ancient geological times when climate was much warmer.

Reference

Lotus is a longstanding herblike amphibian plant, a scape of which morphed into a thick rootstock, immersed into underwater ground. Some of lotus leaves are underwater, lepidoid; others are above water, floating in water or standing highly up the water. Floating leaves are plain, round and with long flexile footstalks. Above water leaves locate in the straight standing footstalks, are funnelformed and larger than floating leaves – up to 50-70 cm in diameter. Leaves of lotus have a wax film and, thus, are not soaked – water drops just roll on the leaves.

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