Coloured Water-lily - Nymphaea x marliacea
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Coloured Water-lily - Nymphaea x marliacea | dylan | Duchess Pond | 1 Feb 2024, 8:46 p.m. | 7 Aug 2022, 11:20 a.m. | |
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Coloured Water-lily - Nymphaea x marliacea | dylan | Duchess Pond | 1 Feb 2024, 8:46 p.m. | 7 Aug 2022, 11:20 a.m. |
Species Description
Stace 4:
Nymphaea x marliacea Lat.-Marl. - Coloured Water-lily.
Closely resembling N. alba but with flowers at least tinged with yellow, pink or red. Neophyte-naturalised; planted in ponds and lakes and increasing vegetatively; throughout Britain. A name used to cover horticultural hybrids between N. alba and the North American N. mexicana Zucc., N. odorata Aiton and N. tuberosa Paine; yellow petals are derived from the first of these.