It’s difficult to pinpoint a species without detailed images of the rhizomes, and very few are currently documented online, but perhaps in time they will become available so that tentative identifications of Plant 2r can be confirmed or denied. One thing is certain however\u2014if all parts of the plant are taken into consideration, the VMS plant matches floating hearts and their cousins (and even Calystegia soldanella) much more closely than the larger Nymphaeas<\/em> and Nelumbos<\/em> that we typically associate with the term “water lily”.<\/p>\n

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