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Small yellow pond-lily

(Nuphar pumila (Timm) DC)

Perennial herbaceous aquatic plant with a rhizome up to 2 cm in diameter.
Leaves are on long stalks. The leaf blade is simple, whole, broadly ovate,
floating, with a cordate base, lobes sharpened at the ends, dentate along the
edge, 5–15 cm long, 4–12 cm wide, pubescent on the underside. Flowers are
actinomorphic solitary, slightly rising above water, 1.5–3 cm in diameter, yellow.
Occasionally found throughout Sakhalin Island (Okhinsky, Nogliksky,
Smirnykhovsky, Poronaysky, Uglegorsky, Tomarinsky and Korsakovsky
districts) and in the Southern Kuriles (Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan, Polonsky,
Yuri islands). In the Russian Far East, it is sporadically observed in all regions.
In Russia, it is also found in Eastern and Western Siberia, in the north and east
of the European part. Outside the Russian Federation it is located in Europe,
Mongolia, China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

The beautiful Melinda and her friends were walking along the shore
of a swamp lake. And then she noticed beautiful golden flowers floating
on the surface of the reservoir. She wanted to take one of these beautiful
flowers with her. The swamp king saw her and decided to steal the beauty.
He turned to a stump, and as soon as the beautiful woman stepped on
him to keep her balance, he sank to the bottom, and the cunning merman

immediately pulled the girl under the water. And the bright yellow flowers
have now become a symbol of deception.

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