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| Nymphaea "Director G. T. Moore" |
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| Nymphaea "Director G. T. Moore" |
Note the similarity between Nymphaea "Director G. T. Moore" and Nympheae caerulea. Note however that part of the reason that the Nymphaea "Director G. T. Moore" looks a lot darker is because the Nympheae caerulea were in direct sunlight. To me it looks like the Nympheae caerulea has many more stamens. The problem is I still have not been able to figure out of Nymphaea "Director G. T. Moore" is an actual species or a cultivar or hybrid perhaps.
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| Nympheae caerulea |
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| Nympheae caerulea |
With Nympheae"General Pershing" on the other hand there is no difficulty in seeing that it is obviously a completely different plant although as with Nympheae"General Pershing" I am not sure if this is a species, cultivar or hybrid. To me it seems that whenever a name is in quotation marks it means that it is a hybrid. I could be wrong.
I will keep looking and when I find out or if someone writes in and enlightens me I will update the post.
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| Nympheae"General Pershing" |
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| Nympheae"General Pershing" |
Genus Name: Nymphaea
Common
names: Water lilies (English) ;
Taxonomic hierarchy:
Kingdom: Plantae - Plants
Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae – Green plants
Infrakingdom: Streptophyta – Land plants
Division: Tracheophyta – Vascular plants
Subdivision: Spermatophytina –
Spermatophytes (seed plants)
Infradivision: Angiospermae – Angiosperms
(flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida –
Superorder: Nymphaeanae –
Order: Nypmhaeales –
Family: Nymphaceae – Water lilies (English)
Genus: Nymphaea –
Species: Nymphaea 'Director G. T. Moore' –
Species: Nymphaea caerulea –
Species: Nymphaea 'General Perishing' – Blue Egyptian Water lily, Sacred Blue Egyptian Water lily (English); Lotus bleu d'Egypte (French); Egyptiche blauwe lotus (Dutch)
Species: Nymphaea 'General Perishing' – Blue Egyptian Water lily, Sacred Blue Egyptian Water lily (English); Lotus bleu d'Egypte (French); Egyptiche blauwe lotus (Dutch)
Notes:
- I am using the taxonomical classification system used by ITIS (Intergrated Taxonomic Information System). I have decided to use this system in order to avoid confusion as well as because it offers a comprehensive hierarchy from kingdom right through to subspecies whereas other sources only go as far as order or provide the names of some of the higher taxonomical ranks but only indicate "unclassified" rather than providing the rank.
- When and where possible I will endeavour to include alternatives classifications although I may limit this to occasions where an opportunity arises to discuss the reason for the different classifications.
- Taxonomical data used in this post was retrieved [June 15 2014], from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database, http://www.itis.gov.
On-line sources:
- Royal Horticultural Society: Entry for Water lilies
- Official Website of the: Meise Botanical Gardens
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database: Entry for Nymphaea
- Wikipedia: Entry for Water Lilies
- Wikipedia: Entry for Nymphaeaceae
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