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Coloured Water-lily - Nymphaea marliacea
Quite similar to the White Water-lily (Nymphaea alba), but the flowers of Nymphaea x marliacea tend to be tinted with pink or yellow whereas Nymphaea alba flowers are a more pure white. A horticultural hybrid between N alba and either N tuberosa or N mexicana, both North American species; widely planted and naturalised.
White water-lily (Nymphaea alba)
Coloured petals, often only a very slight tinge.
A photo of the flowering plant. This cannot always be determined from the leaves alone, although they are often marbled.
Ponds, lakes and canals where it has probably been introduced by humans as a result of discarded plants from ornamental ponds.
Flowers June and July.
Perennial.
Occasional in Britain, usually by means of human introduction.
Infrequent or under recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland. This species was nor tecorded in The Flora of Leicestershire published in 1988, and is not listed in the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Water-Lily
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Nymphaeales
- Family:
- Nymphaeaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 13
- First record:
- 28/08/2013 (Semper, Alan)
- Last record:
- 08/08/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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