Nil Manel (Nymphaea stellata)
January 4th, 2009
Photograph (c) by Nilu Rajapakse
The beautiful, alluring Nil Manel (Nymphaea stellata) is the National Flower of Sri Lanka. Nil means ‘blue’ in Sinhala.
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