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Nymphaea immutabilis
Date of issue: 6 August 2002
Designer: Thaneth Ponchaiwong, Thailand Philatelic Dept.

Stamp size: 37.5 x 26 mm

Plant: Nymphaea immutabilis

Family: NYMPHACEAE

Water Lily
Vigorous aquatic with large, floating, toothed leaves, to 75 cm diameter, produced from a small tuber. Bears flowers to 25 cm diameter, usually blue but sometimes white, on long pedicels. Flowers are held above the surface of the water.

Distribution: NT, Qld.



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