Talk:Victoria amazonica
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This article was begun with a cut and paste of some material from Victoria (waterlily). That article discusses the genus and could be renamed. It also has a significant page history, but I did not move it over this former redirect. cygnis insignis 18:17, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
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"Victoria amazonica, or Vitória Régia is a species of flowering plant that grows at the Northern of Brazil, that floats on the water. It is bordered by two leaves florishes, the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies. And it ispired a legend that is told in the country, about that giant flower that opens up itself only at night.
[edit] Legend from Brazil
Legend has it that, a long time ago, the Tupis-Guaranis, indigenous people from the Northern region of Brazil, told that every night, when the moon got hidden down behind the hills far in horizon, it was going to live together with its favorite young ladies. They used to say that, if the moon could like one single girl, so it would become her into a star of the sky.
One princess, "Pajé's" daughter, - Pajé is the main man of the indigenous people - got impressed with that story. Then, at night, when everybody was sleeping and the moon traveling across the sky, the princess wanted pretty much to be a star, and she walked up to the hills and chased the moon, hoping the moon could sight her down there, up in the hills. And so she could do, every night, for long, long time.
But the moon seemed not to notice her and, the crying of the princess could be heard in the distance, so her sadness and sighs as well.
At one night, the indigenous princess saw, in the clear waters of one lake, the image of the moon. The innocent girl wondered the moon had come down to take her along, and she jumped in the deep waters, and she was never seen again.
The moon, in return of the beautiful princess's sacrifice, wanted to become her into a different star, different from the ones whose light was up in the sky.
So, the moon became the princess into a "Star of the Waters", whose flower is the Vitória Régia.
Then, a new plant was born, whose scented white flowers get blossomed and unfasten at night only. And, when the sun appears in the early mornings, the flowers changed their colors in soft pink.
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