Mysteries
of Identification

As we continue to build the Galleries of Waterlily Cultivar Images and List of Named Waterlilies, we find we have the opportunity to do some serious detective work. With so many people around the world providing images for the Galleries, when multiple images are available for a given cultivar, it becomes obvious which images are correct for the name and which are suspect. And with many people contributing information for the Names List, we learn more about the correct names for the lilies!

Even inaccuracies lead us to question, probe, research and query. Let us say that this in no way reflects on the contributors of images incorrectly named. Many growers have received waterlilies with incorrect names (including us) and grow them in good faith until provided with better information. We hope our Galleries and Names List have become sources of this better information.

Now linked from the Names List and from the appropriate Galleries are some short pages of additional information that clarify names, faces or are just interesting tidbits. We also provide the links below.