Last week I didn't know where roses are grown for perfume, and this week I didn't realize there is a water lily crop in Bangladesh. The picture is on Bing this morning.
It makes me think that they are talking about Lotus, which we can buy here as a canned product and is well known. But that turns out to not be the case.
The Bing image and description is such pretty picture. And the flowers look like our traditional water lilies rather than lotus. You might want to check out the series HERE as they are breathtaking. The photographer is Pham Trung.
Other articles say that water lilies' stems are edible and the plant is used for brewing tea. There are articles on native edible water lilies in North America.
It doesn't look like the kind of rose harvesting we checked out last week. It looks more like a local crop. There's a reference in the article to the harvest providing extra income as the lilies are used for food and home decoration.
Here my own version of water lilies in black water. This one is at the Royal Botanical Gardens in the rose garden.
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