Yellow Carla's Sonshine Day Blooming Lily
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Nymphaea 'Carla's Sonshine' was hybridized in 2001 and released to the trade in 2004. It is a cross between an unnamed hybrid and N. 'Trail Blazer'. The unnamed tropical waterlily hybrid was a cross between N. 'Albert Greenberg' and N. 'Josephine'. This waterlily is unique because it is the only viviparous yellow waterlily on the market today. It has a deep yellow flower with heavily mottled pads and a compact nature which is also unique for tropical yellow hybrids. To create this waterliliy was especially rewarding because their was a long term direct effort to create a yellow viviparous tropical waterlily since none existed.