Nymphaea (Blue Lotus, Water Lily)

Blue Lotus, Sacred Blue Lily and Water Lilies belong to a genus of hardy to subtropical and tropical aquatic plants with a cosmopolitan distribution. Most species make tubers or thick rhizomes from which emerge floating glossy leaves and floating colorful flowers. Smaller tropical species are easily grown in large pots or small containers filled with 1/2 soil and 1/2 water. Tropical species require a minimum of some 20°C throughout the year and full sun and are showy plants which are excellent in a heated greenhouse or wintergarden.
Sow fine seeds on top of any humus rich soil, carefully add some 5cm of water on top of the soil. Keep pots at a minimum of some 20°C in full sun. The first leaves are tiny and will gradually get larger. Carefully transplant tubers to larger pots as seedlings get larger. Plants are very fast growing and will make their first flowers within 1 to 2 years after sowing! Until sowing keep seeds always moist in order to prevent them from dessication.
10 seeds per package.

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Nymphaea caerulea (Blue Lotus)

Nymphaea caerulea (Blue Lotus)

30cm, Blue Lotus, Sacred Blue Lily, Egyptian Water Lily or Nile Water Lily is an showy small plant with floating glossy leaves and spectacular rich ink-blue, light blue to rarely pure white water lily flowers. It is native of swampy areas alongside the Nile river in Egypt and neighboring areas in East Africa and its' dried petals have been used by ancient Egyptians for their said aphrodisiacal and euphoric properties. Easily grown in large pots or small containers filled with 1/2 soil and 1/2 water at a minimum of some 20°C throughout the year and full sun. Can be either propagated by seeds (which may lead to various blue shades in their flowers) or by means of tiny offset tubers taken from the mother plant in late spring. Until sowing keep seeds always moist in order to prevent them from dessication. VI-XI.

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