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Nuphar saikokuensis

Nuphar saikokuensis
Photo: Show_ryu, CC BY-SA 3.0

Nuphar saikokuensis is a rhizomatous aquatic water-lily relative native to western and central Japan, grown in ponds and slow water. It needs still or slow water with its roots in mud and its leaves floating at the surface.

Family
Nymphaeaceae (Water-lily family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the roots submerged in water at all times; it is grown in water, not watered by hand.
Soil
Heavy pond mud or loam, with the rhizome planted in the substrate under water.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; tolerates winter cold and freezing of the surface, with the rhizome surviving underwater.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. & C. Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Nuphar saikokuensis is a species of rhizomatous aquatic plant endemic to Japan.

Other Nuphar plants

Spatter Dock · East Asian Yellow Water Lily · Yellow Water-lily · Small Yellow Pond Lily · Red Least Water Lily · Yellow Pond Lily · Broad Leaved Pond Lily · Rocky Mountain Cow Lily · Nuphar pumila subsp. sinensis · Least Water-lily · Red Pond Lily · Cape Fear Spatterdock

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nuphar saikokuensis 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.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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