Red Night Water Lily Aquatic - Nymphaea Red Flare - 5 Seeds Sweet Pepper but rarely achieves this size

but rarely achieves this size outside its natural range

Ready to start picking about 120 days after sowing

where it is used medicinally as a tea

These plants have a rather large tuberous root system

Red Night Water Lily Aquatic - Nymphaea Red Flare - 5 Seeds Sweet Pepper but rarely achieves this sizeDespite their name, water lilies are not related to the true lilies (family Liliaceae). The name "lily" is applied to a number of plants that are not at all closely related, such as day lilies, spider lilies and arum lilies, in addition to the water lilies. Nymphaea (Egyptian lotuses) are also not related to the Chinese and Indian lotus of genus Nelumbo, which are used in Asian cooking and sacred to Hinduism and Buddhism. The ancient Egyptians revered