White Egyptian lotus
குவளை
Nymphaea lotus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- 75 cm
Nymphaeaceae
Also called Egyptian white water-lily, Tiger lotus, White lotus, Night Waterlily, White Egyptian Lotus
Formerly Castalia lotus, Leuconymphaea lotus
When it flowers
Flowers September to July 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
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS white; Wikipedia cream, white
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: height, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Lotus africano blanco, Lirio de agua egipcio
- Chinese
- 齒葉睡蓮, 斑荷根, 齿叶睡莲
- Estonian
- egiptuse vesiroos
- Czech
- leknín lotosový, leknín posvátný
- root
- leBakgara, tswii, lebakgara
- Japanese
- ヨザキスイレン
- Chinese (China)
- 齿叶睡莲
- Danish
- Tigerlotus
- Afrikaans
- Witwaterlelie
- Russian
- Кувшинка египетская
- Polish
- grzybienie egipskie, Grzybienie egipskie
- Thai
- บัวสายสีขาว
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Nymphaea lotus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.