Tropical Royalblue Waterlily
Nymphaea elegans Hook.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Nymphaeaceae
Also called Tropical royalblue waterlily
Formerly Castalia elegans, Leuconymphaea elegans
When it flowers
Flowers June to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous hydrogeophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Texas to Florida, Mexico, BahamasKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
In other languages (5)
- Spanish
- Nenúfar azul
- Chinese (China)
- 优雅睡莲
- Chinese
- 優雅睡蓮, 美洲睡莲
- Slovak
- lekno úhľadné
- Swedish
- Golfnäckros
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
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