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''Nymphaea pubescens'' is known under a number of different synonyms, the most common of which is ''Nymphaea rubra'' for the reddish variant known under the commercial name '''Red water lily''', which often has also purplish leaves.
''Nymphaea pubescens'' is known under a number of different synonyms, the most common of which is ''Nymphaea rubra'' for the reddish variant known under the commercial name '''Red water lily''', which often has also purplish leaves.
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Nymphaea rubra, Roxbg. Lvs. orbiculate, reddish brown, bronzy, becoming greenish, pubescent beneath, 12-18 in. across: fls. deep purplish red, 6-10 in. across, open 3 or 4 nights from 8 P.m. to 11 A.M.; sepals dull purplish red, 7-nerved, never opening more than 10° above horizontal; petals 12—20, narrowly oval, rounded at apex; stamens about 55. cinnabar-red in color, becoming brownish. India.—This species varies much in color, and produces fertile hybrids with N. Lotus and N. L. dentata. There are, therefore, a series of garden forms of all colors from delicate pink to deep purplish crimson. In these the petals vary from broadly ovate and concave to narrowly ovate and flat, and the fls. are from tulip-shape to wide open. Some are highly floriferous, others shy bloomers. Most of these are arranged in order of color: fls. very delicate pink: N. Smithiana, petals broad; N. indica Isis, N. Laelia, N. L. colorans. Fls. light pink: N. delicatissima, N. Deaniana, more pink, petals broad; N. Boucheana, N. indica Spira, Reine d'ltalie. Fls. rosy pink: N. kewensis (C. L. A. 25, March, p. 35), N. Micheliana. Fls. red-pink: N. Sturtevantii, fl. tulip-shape, very massive; N. rubicunda, Hofgartner Graebner. Fls. magenta: N. Omarana, fl. wide open, narrow petal; N. Ortgesiano-rubra, N. Mariae-Legrangei, N. Bissetii, Adele, Niobe, N. tulipifera, small, tulip-shape. Fls. rosy carmine: Diana, N. indica Brahma, N. rubra rosea, N. devoniensis N. Arnoldiana, Pres. Girard. Fls. carmine: N. Krumbiegelii, N. columbiana, N. Diana grandiflora. Fls. dark reel: a, purpurea, Doctor Florenze, Geo. Huster. Fls. crimson to deep purplish crimson: Frank Trelease, Rufus J. Lackland, James Gurney, Jr.
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