Nymphaea alba
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Habit | aquatic
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Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Water: | ◍ | wet |
Features: | ✓ | flowers, foliage |
Flower features: | ❀ | red, white |
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Nymphaea alba, also known as the European White Waterlily, White Lotus, or Nenuphar, is an aquatic flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae.
It grows in water from 30-150 centimeters deep and likes large ponds and lakes. The leaves can be up to thirty centimeters in diameter and they take up a spread of 150 centimeters per plant. The flowers are white and they have many small stamens inside.
The red variety which is in cultivation came from Sweden.
It is found all over Europe and in parts of North Africa and the Middle East in freshwater.
Nymphaea candida J. Presl is sometimes considered a subspecies of N. alba (N. alba L. subsp. candida (J. Presl) Korsh.).
ExpandRead about Nymphaea alba in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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