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Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis
Also called Egyptian Water Lily, Egyptian Lotus, White Lotus, White Water Lily, Water Lily, Tiger Lotus, Egyptian Lily
A cold-tolerant, warm-water variety of the Egyptian lotus, native only to thermal springs in Romania. Grow it as an aquatic in a pond or tub with warm-ish water and full sun.
Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis is a variety of Nymphaea lotus native to Romania.
Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis is endemic to the thermal water of the Peţa River, Sânmartin, Bihor County, Romania. The area is protected as a nature reserve (51.0 hectares (126 acres) in size) and consists of a rivulet along with three ponds. The water has a roughly constant temperature of around 30 °C whilst the site has an average air temperature of 10–11 °C. The thermal waters have been recorded as early as 1211, but it was only in 1799 that the first record of N. lotus was made, by Pál Kitaibel. Janos Tuzson proposed in 1907 that this population's unusual location could be explained by the persistent heat provided by the thermal springs could have sustained the population at a pre-ice age time when the plant would have been spreading across the warmer regions of Europe; this theory was corroborated by additional evidence provided by the identification of other endemic species.
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