Trees & Plants

The Sacred blue waterlily

Nailoafaru

Nymphaea nouchali var.

Occasional in lakes and small water bodies Apart from its ornamental value, the ca. rhizomes are useful in diarrhea, dysentery, ca. dipsia and general debility. They are also eaten boiled or roasted. The seeds are useful in diarrhea and dermatopathy.

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uses: Apart from its ornamental value, the ca. rhizomes are useful in diarrhea, dysentery, ca. dipsia and general debility. They are also eaten boiled or roasted. The seeds are useful in diarrhea and dermatopathy.
family: Nymphaeaceae
synonym: Nymphaea caerulea Savigny fi
description: Aquatic herbs, rhizomes erect. Leaves subpeltate, suborbicular, retuse, in entire or sinuate-dentate towards base, 17- 25 cm across, glabrous, cleft almost near to petiole base; sinus 6-10 cm long; petioles brownish green. Flowers 7.5-16 cm across, dark sky blue, fragrant. Receptacles glabrous; pedicels similar to petioles. Sepals oblong- lanceolate, obtusely cucullate at apex, entire, × ca. 6 2 cm, brownish green with purple streaks outside, blue with dark blue spots towards tip inside. Petals 14-20; outer ones lanceolate-elliptic, obtusely cucullate, ca. × 5.5 1.5 cm; inner ones elliptic, acute, ca. × 4.0 0.8 cm. Stamens 55-80, reflexed at the base of filament and anthers becoming erect in caerulea (Savigny) Verdc. forming a wide ring around the stigma; × filaments of outer stamens ca. 10 4 mm, yellow; anthers 6-12 mm long, blue; sterile appendages 1-4 mm long, reflexed, not prominent in inner ones, pale blue. Carpels 13-18, stigmatic surface broad, ca. 2 cm in diameter, flattened, yellow; stigmatic appendages oblong, yellow, incurved after to pollination.
native range: North Africa
distribution: Temperate and tropical Asia, Australia and Africa
english names: The Sacred blue waterlily
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Occasional in lakes and small water bodies