Red Night Water Lily Aquatic - Nymphaea Red Flare - 5 Seeds Sabi Star greyish-green hairy leaves

greyish-green hairy leaves

Daisy-like flowers open during the day

bearing in lower parts of stems dense half whorls of stiff

shining and ribbed inside

It is an ultimately cold hardy tree that almost never grows naturally where average summer temperatures exceed 21C

Red Night Water Lily Aquatic - Nymphaea Red Flare - 5 Seeds Sabi Star greyish-green hairy leavesDespite their name, water lilies are not related to the true lilies (family Liliaceae). The name "lily" is applied to a number of plants that are not at all closely related, such as day lilies, spider lilies and arum lilies, in addition to the water lilies. Nymphaea (Egyptian lotuses) are also not related to the Chinese and Indian lotus of genus Nelumbo, which are used in Asian cooking and sacred to Hinduism and Buddhism. The ancient Egyptians revered