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    Thread: N. thermarum and Friends

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      N. thermarum and Friends

      In August ( ? ) I was gifted an N. thermarum plant by a dear friend and it finally bloomed above the waterline on a day I was there to photograph it. The first is an overview in a 6" pot and the second a close up of the bloom. The " friends" are a nice blue with red speckled pads I named 'Blubop' and the other two attractive, but unnamed volunteers. With no rain for weeks. the ponds are low so the blooms are a tilt. But it is late October and the start of the dry season here. The tubers that sprouted the lilies survived weeks, if not months, of dry conditions and still managed to power through. Does that make these tropicals "hardy" lilies? < g >
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      Wow! Pretty Hardy! The speckled leaves are nice! Nice "Volunteers" too!
      Congrats on the N. thermarum!
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      It has been sweatpants weather the last few mornings and the neotropical night bloomer N. prolifera had not fully closed. To me the bloom is reminiscent of a Victoria, albeit smaller....also a neotropical night bloomer. Maybe some convergent evolution going on out there in the swamps. < g <
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      Thermarum do seem pretty indestructible. Since they are so small I usually pull mine into the house. Sadly I have not gotten any seedlings up to flowering size before caterpillars get them. Army worms seem to really like baby thermarum. I was able to divide my original plant into 4 by cutting up tuber (rhizhome?) into sections (I had 4 crowns develop). The weirdest thing my thermarum do is "reach" when the barometric pressure drops. Been through 2 hurricanes now with them and the leaves always point up 12 hours before the storm arrives.

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