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Nelumbo 'Alba Striata' Empress Lotus
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Unique large white blossoms with pink-red edges. Zone 3.
Beautiful white flowers splashed with pink, a medium size variety well suited to small to large ponds
Nelumbo nucifera is a flowering, aquatic plant with beautiful, fragrant flowers. The species has 2 feet wide, round leaves, held 3 to 6 feet above the water surface. The lotus flower is usually pink, 4 to 10 inches in diameter, with a single flower per stem. Color can vary from white to rose, with double flowered varieties, and dwarf plants being developed for small ponds and containers. The fruit is woody and ornamental, good for crafts.
Seeds and tubers are used in Chinese cooking.
Plant roots horizontally in a 1 1/2 foot container, 4 inches below the soil surface.
Submerge the container 8 to 12 inches under the water surface.
In areas where a freeze is possible, a deeper pond, or pond covering, will be required.
- Cultivar: Alba Striata
- Family: Nelumbonaceae
- Size: Height: 2.33 ft. to 5 ft.
- Plant: decorative berries or fruit,
- Foliage: medium leaves, coarse leaves,
- Flower: fragrant, showy, unusual,
- Flower Color: whites, pink edges
- Tolerances: heat & humidity,
LOTUS PLANT CARE: - The Lotus plant should be fertilized sparingly for the first year.
- Too much fertilizer may cause the Lotus foliage to burn.
- A Lotus plant that is established can be fed every 3 or 4 weeks during the growing season.
- Care must be taken when inserting fertilizer tabs, because the growing tip and new growth can be damaged.
- It is important to protect the Lotus roots from freezing.
- Lotus can winter over in the pond if the pond depth is below the freeze line for your area.
- In late fall, the yellowed foliage should be cut off and the plant lowered to the deepest part of the pond.
- Or you may lift the tubers after the plant has died back during the fall.
- If you lift the tubers, store them in a cool, frost-free location until late spring.
- To help prevent mildew and rotting, store them in living sphagnum moss
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