For two months in 1993, I visited Sri Lanka in search of Nymphaea nouchali, the national flower and there called Nil Mahanel.
		Flower sale in front of the Temple
Dalada-Maligavi Temple in the capital city of Colombo: I waited here for the guideboy who knew a very special place for Nil Mahanel.

I searched on foot, by plane and by boat.

There were BIG surprises . . . and small ones.

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