Colorful water lily
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Colorful water lily ( Nymphaea colorata ) |
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The colorful water lily ( Nymphaea colorata ), also known as the blue Nile water lily , is a species of the water lily genus ( Nymphaea ). The home is in East Africa . It was first described in 1928 by the German botanist Gustav Albert Peter (1853-1937).
description
The colorful water lily is a perennial herbaceous plant . This aquatic plant forms a submerged rhizome . A plant occupies a place about 1 to 2 meters in diameter on the surface of the water.
The leaves have long stalks. The leaf blade is round in outline with a diameter of about 20 centimeters, the incision is usually open, more rarely covered up to half of the leaf lobes. The leaf margin is slightly wavy. The leaves are green on the upper side, violet-bluish underneath with green protruding leaf veins.
The hermaphrodite flowers appear in abundance on the surface of the water and they open during the day. The flowers hardly smell, if at all. They are bowl-shaped with a diameter of about 11 to 14 centimeters. The inflorescence consists of four to five sepals and 13 to 15 petals . The petals are more intense blue-purple in color than the sepals. The almost black-colored stamens wear the purple-red, towards lighter to the tip dust bag .
Occurrence
Nymphaea colorata occurs only in Tanzania .
use
The colorful water lily is used as an ornamental plant. It forms many flowers in relation to the leaf mass. Unusually for a tropical day-blooming water lily, it blooms at cooler temperatures below 20 ° C. Central European winters, however, are not tolerated. She is the parent of the hybrids Nymphaea 'Director George T. Moore' and Nymphaea 'Midnight'.
literature
- Robert Lee Riffle: The Tropical Look: An Encyclopedia of Dramatic Landscape Plants. Timber Press 1998, ISBN 0-88192-422-9 ( online limited version on Google Books ).
- Perry D. Slocum: Waterlilies and Lotuses . Timber Press 2005, ISBN 0-88192-684-1 ( limited online version on Google Books ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Nymphaea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
