Spatterdock is a perennial aquatic herb floating type. Rhizome hypertrophy block, lying. The two leaf type, floating leaves papery or nearly leathery, ovate to orbicular, 8~17 cm long, margin entire, base cracking in deep heart. Green foliage and bright leaves, Beilong is convex, pilose. Lateral vein fine,
With several 2 forked branches, petioles cylindric. The submerged leaves are thin and soft. Flowers solitary, cylindrical pedicel buds globose, quite out of the water, green. Sepals 5, obovate, cuneate, yellow, petal like. Petals 10~20, narrowly cuneate, like sterile stamens, glabrescent; stamens numerous,
My wife was born in petals to the base of the ovary receptacle, fall off. Carpels 12~15, connate into a superior ovary, the carpel boundary is obvious, each at the apex into 1 stigmas, so that the stigma of the stigma of a radial disk. Ovary locule with carpels, numerous, on diaphragm. Berry ovoid, 3 cm long,
Persistent sepals, irregularly dehiscent. Seed oblong, brown, bright. Florescence 5~7 month, fruit period 7~9 month. Guizhou Pingpeng leaves nearly orbicular or ovate, small plant type. The Pingpeng heart leaves ovate, large flowers, flower diameter 5~6 cm, peduncle length out of the water about 20 cm, with high ornamental value
