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Euryale

Euryale
Photo: 京浜にけ at Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Euryale is a genus of aquatic water-lily relatives in the family Nymphaeaceae, with the best-known member being the prickly water lily (Euryale ferox). It grows rooted in shallow ponds, lakes and marshes and needs still or slow water and plenty of sun.

Family
Nymphaeaceae (Water-lily family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Grow rooted in water: keep the pot or pond bed submerged in shallow still water.
Soil
Heavy pond mud or a loam-based aquatic planting medium in a container.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; keeps growing through warm summers and dies back in winter. Protect the root from freezing solid.
How easy
Moderate

About

Euryale is a genus of flowering plants of the family Nymphaeaceae.

Where it grows

Euryale is found in the area that stretches from Northern India to the Russian Far East and extends into temperate East Asia, where it occurs in ponds, lakes, rice fields, and marshes.

Other Euryale plants

Prickly Water Lily

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Euryale (plant) by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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