The white water lily, enduring the harsh winters of high-altitude habitats, presents a unique model for studying cold adaptation. With climate variability posing a risk to food security ...

These adaptations exist because they give a survival ... to find water and shallow roots to catch infrequent rainfall. Water lilies have strong roots to anchor the plant in the stream bed.

The challenges of living in an aquatic environment have given rise to a number of interesting adaptations in the water lily. The undersides of the floating leaves have a strong attraction to water ...

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 ...

These adaptations exist because they give a survival ... to find water and shallow roots to catch infrequent rainfall. Water lilies have strong roots to anchor the plant in the stream bed.