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| | Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea |
 | | One is Nymphaea lotus, the white water lily, or white lotus which has night-blooming white or cream flowers and is widespread in tropical Africa to southern Africa, where it occurs in the former Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal, Botswana, Swaziland and Namibia, and in Madagascar, in sheltered water 0.5-2.5m deep and in swamps. |
 | | In Africa, this species occurs in tropical to southern Africa where it is common, although not as common as it used to be, in pools, dams, vleis and swamps, seasonal ponds, lake-edges and slow-flowing streams and rivers, mostly in water 30 to 90 cm deep. |
 | | 1800) in South Africa, the rootstock of the blue water lily was collected and eaten, either raw or in curries, in particular by the Cape Malays and farming communities in the Cape. |
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