# Euryale ferox in the water garden

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 20, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euryale-ferox-in-the-water-garden/453538 "2008-06-20T02:20:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euryale-ferox-in-the-water-garden/453538/1 "2008-06-20T02:20:22Z")

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After several years I was able to obtain [Euryale ferox](http://www.victoria-adventure.org/victoria/euryale_gallery.html) again for the water garden from [Perry’s.](http://www.perryswatergardens.net/store/index.asp?cat=14)  
It is a tiny thing, much smaller than the weedy plants I had and sold on Ebay.  
The @#$%^! [turtles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eared_slider) (1) were biting off the stems of leaves, so I made a cylindrical cage of chicken wire to protect it. Why don’t they eat those damn hard lilies of whose name is legion?  
Hey, “mundane and pointless” it says on the door. 🙂

(1) Formerly known as “Cute little baby turtles” in the Plant household.

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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euryale-ferox-in-the-water-garden/453538/2 "2008-06-20T02:26:33Z")

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Hey, I don’t know how to help with the turtlings, but am glad you introduced me to a plant I don’t know. Great leaves there!

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euryale-ferox-in-the-water-garden/453538/3 "2008-06-20T02:34:05Z")

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[QUOTE=elelle]  
Great leaves there!  
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I forgot to mention, the leaves are covered with thorns as are the buds. 40" across, although the largest I ever got was 32", before Mrs. Plants Sheltie jumped onto it.

The turtles are just trying to make a living, as is everyone else, Water Gardener, Straight Doper or Republican. The young ones tend to eat more veggies than the adults and bite off the leaves.

I’ve been fortunate enough to see [three spotted newts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Newt) this year.

Like I said, mundane and pointless. 🙂

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euryale-ferox-in-the-water-garden/453538/4 "2008-06-20T04:28:51Z")

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WOW, that’s a gorgeous flower!!! Really beautiful.

Have you ever grown nymphaea cerulea?

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euryale-ferox-in-the-water-garden/453538/5 "2008-06-20T13:12:08Z")

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[QUOTE=brujaja]

Have you ever grown nymphaea cerulea?  
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No, a white Hermine I’ve had for some time, a pink unknown cultivar that took over the lotus pool where E. ferox is, and a couple of lotus. Various marginals and of course the native carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba.