Red water lily
ആമ്പൽলাল শালুক
Nymphaea rubra Roxb. ex Andrews
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Nymphaeaceae
Also called Red waterlily
Formerly Castalia magnifica, Castalia rubra, Leuconymphaea rubra
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 geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Sri Lanka, NE. India to W. & C. MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- アカバナスイレン
- Chinese (China)
- 印度红睡莲, 红花睡莲
- Chinese
- 紅花睡蓮, 印度红睡莲, 红花睡莲
- Thai
- บัวแดง
- Russian
- Кувшинка красная
- Italian
- ninfea rossa
- Hungarian
- indiai vörös tündérrózsa, vörös tündérrózsa
- Spanish
- Ninfa asiática roja
- French
- Nénuphar
- Portuguese
- Ninfeia-vermelha
- Slovak
- lekno červené
- Simplified Chinese
- 红花睡莲
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
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.