Blue water lily
नीलकमलநெய்தல் மலர்ആമ്പൽ
Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Nymphaeaceae
Also called Day Waterlily, Red and Blue Waterlily, Cape Water Lily, Cape Blue Waterlily
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old World to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Useful Tropical Plants, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Useful Tropical Plants, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, pink, purple, violet, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 白花睡蓮, 延藥睡蓮 (藍睡蓮), 優鉢羅、尼羅烏缽羅
- Estonian
- täht-vesiroos
- Spanish
- Nenúfar de Sri Lanka
- German
- Sternseerose
- Japanese
- ムラサキスイレン, ホシザキスイレン
- Czech
- leknín hvězdový
- root
- Tswii, mweende, ikhubalo lechanti
- Sinhala
- නිල් මානෙල්
- Chinese (China)
- 延药睡莲
- Thai
- บัวเผื่อน
- Afrikaans
- blou waterlelie
- Russian
- Кувшинка звездчатая
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
- Useful Tropical Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Nymphaea nouchali (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.