Blue Water Lily Identification | Nymphaea caerulea
Channel: ElectricVeg
Date: 2022-09-10

An exhaustive botanical reference guide to identifying the Sacred Egyptian lily ("lotus").

I took 1600+ photos/videos just to finish this guide. I hope it's enough.

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00:00 | Intro
01:20 | Important Features
07:43 | Comparative List
08:42 | Complete Taxonomy
16:01 | Caveats

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▾ Image credits ▾
► Fan Wen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea_capensis#/media/File:Nymphaea_capensis_(12)_1200.jpg
► Greg Tasney - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109134499
► Ermell - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nymphaea_caerulea-20091014-RM-115245.jpg
► Abdulmominbd - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-Lotus.jpg
► Leandro Avelar - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nymphaea_caerulea_(Nymphaeaceae).jpg
► https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/spatterdock-yellow-pond-lily
► Claire H. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/8435962@N06/2573540958
► Amadé Ouédraogo, Marco Schmidt - http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=14&id=1142
► Paul Adam - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea_gigantea#/media/File:Blaue_Seerosen_(Nymphaea_gigantea).jpg
► Nghi Nguyen - https://pixabay.com/videos/pink-lotus-the-leaves-water-flower-33686/
► https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/nymphaea-wanvisa/