Talk:Nymphaea nouchali

A fact from Nymphaea nouchali appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Nymphaea nouchali (pictured) is the national flower of Sri Lanka where it is known as Nil Manel in Sinhala?

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was not moved. --BDD (talk) 21:35, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nymphaea nouchali → Blue Lotus – per WP:COMMONNAME PHEONIXTER 05:42, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – that would seem to be quite confusing. If it can be argued that this is the principal meaning of the term world-wide, then the way to clarify that situation would be to rename Blue lotus as Blue lotus (disambiguation), change Blue lotus to be a redirect to this page, and add a hatnote to this page at the top to direct readers to the disambiguation page. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is no indication, even currently in the article, that the "L" in "lotus" is always in uppercase. There is also no indication that Nymphaea nouchali is the primary topic of "blue lotus". Zzyzx11 (talk) 00:58, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nymphaea caerulea is also called blue lotus. The genus Nelumbo is more commonly associated with "Lotus". And then there is the genus Lotus that is unrelated to any of these. There is way too much ambiguity to move this from the scientific name, which leaves no room for confusion. First Light (talk) 01:17, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Nymphaea caerulea actually seems to be a problem. This database states that it is a variety of N. nouchali. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 11:09, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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National flower of Bangladesh

I've removed a statement that the national flower of Bangladesh is a whitish-coloured form of N. nouchali because the citation that was given, a news article about the Sri Lankan national flower, seems not to be a very good reference for this particular statement. The Sri Lankan flower is usually shown as a rich purple flower that apparently belongs to a different species. It might be natural in the context of that purple flower to refer to the common blue form that grows wild throughout Bangladesh as "whitish". In any case, the constitution of Bangladesh specifies only the species and not the colour. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:32, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Shapla

Shapla has at times been redirected to this page, yet the term does not appear anywhere in this article. So, two questions: 1) is this term actually used in English-language sources for the flower, or only in other languages and 2) either way, is it worth mentioning this other name in the lead? -- Fyrael (talk) 15:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's also worth mentioning that a number of other articles have previously or still do use "Shapla" in the context of the national flower of Bangladesh. It could just be editors who are used to the term from their native language though and didn't think twice about it. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:33, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nymphaea nouchali,

Nymphaea nouchali, 116.204.143.123 (talk) 03:51, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]