Plant Species : Lily and Lotus

**lorba** · 21st Jun 2003, 22:42

Let me start the ball rolling. Since it will be community effort, it will be difficult to keep any format in check. So let's dump in whatever picture, knowledges, experiences here. We can sort them out and compile into a useful piece at the end of the day.

I suggest we refrain from posting questions like 'where can i get this' in this thread, thanks!

Some lotus flower pictures from markyen, but I don't know what species, maybe the man himself can tell us:

Flower one

**lorba** · 21st Jun 2003, 22:44

Some commmonly available ones from benny (not very high resolution):

Nymphaea lotus rubra

Nymphaea lotus

**lorba** · 21st Jun 2003, 22:50

illumbomb, hotlink for you :

**illumbomb** · 21st Jun 2003, 23:34

Hi,

I would like to contribute some lousy photographs of Nymphaea Stellata (Please tell me if I have identified the plant wrongly). Thanks.

Lousy Photographs

**hwchoy** · 21st Jun 2003, 23:35

OK, here I come. I've opened an album on Sony Imagestation (since it is fast and has no size limit) which will accept uploads. Go to http://www.imagestation.com/members/hwchoy and select the AQ Tiger Lotus collection album. You can scroll through the display, and if you click on the image you get the larger version which is good for checking out the details (1600×1200 with 10% JPEG compression, image size around 350KB)

You can contribute by clicking the &quot;Add Images/Video&quot; button and use one of the three ways to upload. Suggest that anything uploaded to this album should become the property of AQ. You can simply upload the highest resolution pic available, I will scale and compress for you. But do fill in the caption otherwise we have a collection of useless pretty pictures.

AQ mods, perhaps later you want to find a proper home for this collection, meanwhile I will file the mastercopy image onto CDrom for safe keeping.

**hwchoy** · 21st Jun 2003, 23:44

OK, here goes:

Red Tiger Lotus - Thin-Leaved. This plant was obtained from Teo's plant farm. It has a small tuber, slightly purplish in colour. Flower is dark pink with yellow centre, about 15cm across.

Submersed leaf, tend to form a &quot;bowl&quot;, i.e. the rim is higher than the centre (stalk), leaf is thin and slightly bullate, and can be damaged easily through catching of fish.

Floating leaf, note as it matures the slit opens up with a distinct &quot;horn&quot; (see the older leaf on the left). Leaf surface is smooth.

**hwchoy** · 21st Jun 2003, 23:57

Red Tiger Lotus - Thick-leaved. Obtained from fellow forummer Kingpin. Same plant as displayed in Gen-X. Leaf blade is thick, strongly bullate with think veins on the underside, which is dark purple. Have not seen it flower, rhizome not observed, tend to produce plantlets by runner.

Young floating leaf. Underside of leaf is dark purple. Leaf is quite heavily bullate.

Mature floating leaves. As usual the markings fade after a few days. Leaf turns yellow green as it ages.

**Simon** · 22nd Jun 2003, 00:02

ahhhh.. now, this is interesting for a change [

] we can have discussion on particular species of plants weekly/monthly.. where members can contribute their findings and pictures, so Lorba can collect them and include it into our revamp site

keep up the good work guys[

]

**vinz** · 22nd Jun 2003, 00:39

Nuphur japonica flower

Nuphur japonica tuber

**eric_kclee** · 22nd Jun 2003, 21:53

Hi,
This is Queen of Siam according to PETMART.

This look like the one hwchoy has posted as
Red Tiger Lotus - Thin Leaved

After exchanging notes with hwchoy, very likely this a different strand.

Distinctive feature.

1. it has a small tuber.
2. Leaves are hard and thick, can still erect if taken out of water.
3. Stalk are short.
4. leave are round, bend along the stalk axis and form a 'V', definitely not a bowl shape like the one hwchoy has.
5. The color pattern of its surface leave look like 4 color lotus from far but not exactly.

Since hw choy has claimed both RedTigerLotus - Thin and Thick leaves.

I don't know how to name mine, maybe 'Queen of Siam'....

**vinz** · 22nd Jun 2003, 22:14

Looks very different from the &quot;Queen of Siam&quot; that I saw at Teo's.

The one I saw looks more like the green tiger lotus except the red patches are much bigger. Simon and David was there, maybe they can confirm.

**Simon** · 22nd Jun 2003, 23:39

vinz, where in Teo is it located? I did see a lotus in one of the ponds, which looks like a 4 colour lotus, except the stem is thicker and with the description you mentioned

**juggler** · 23rd Jun 2003, 12:14

Nymphoides ezannoi

The plantlets will have roots and it can continue sending off another plantlet and very soon cover the water surface. Seems like it can be kept as a floating plant as well. More info in Kasselmann's book.

**vinz** · 23rd Jun 2003, 13:04

Simon, it was you or David who were referring to it as the Queen of Siam. I think Teo labelled it too... so we don't know?

Seems that David agrees that the one in Eric's pictures is the QOS? I'm throughly confused by David's replies in this thread.

**hwchoy** · 23rd Jun 2003, 14:01

Just came back from GenX, they have the plant in Eric's picture, and they says it is the &quot;Queen of Siam&quot;.

**eric_kclee** · 23rd Jun 2003, 14:05

HuuRAAAAY!

I got a name for my new baby...'QUEEN OF SIAM'

Anyone object to it?
Thanks Choy...ps: I sent you mail.

**theodore** · 23rd Jun 2003, 14:52

I'm all for calling it 'Queen of Siam' for now (esp. since I bought 1 from Petmart for myself yesterday) but does anyone have more information on it?

If the 'Queen of Siam's I've found online are the same one I bought, then the stalks may not stay short as the guy at Petmart claimed (and I gullibly believed).

Some info I found on a pond-intended water lily called 'Queen of Siam' :

-Nymphaea 'Queen of Siam'
-Lovely deep pink blossoms (i'm not convinced cos the pics I saw seems more purple than pink)
-Low light (in pond water lily context so I have no idea how much light we need if we are to keep it submersed)
-Maroon mottled pads
-Medium to large plant
-Vivaparous (let's hope this is true and I get tiny plantlets in due time)

Pics

**wahboy** · 23rd Jun 2003, 18:16

hello all,

eric, from my experience, what you bought at petmart is the same as Choy's plant. in our tanks, the plant produces leaves more similar to that of Choy's plant.

i have the green variety. it produced a plantlet at the notch of a submersed leaf. if this is what you mean by vivaparous theo. i am sure this is not n.micrantha. the young leaves have red specks but these fade as the leave matures.

hope this helps.
Wayne Wah