Description

Nelumbo nucifera ‘Raining Love’
Color: Versicolor with red-purple tips
Size: small to medium
Leaf Height: 9.5 inches (24 cm)
Flower Type: Double Flower (86 to 94 petals)
Flower Diameter: 7.5 inches (19 cm)
Flower Height: 23.5 inches (60cm)
Flowering Period: Starts early in the season and lasts for 2.5 months
Maternal Parent: N. ‘Huanglian Hua’
Comments: Vigorous bloomer with dish-like flower. Tip of the petals are red-purple. Middle is light red-purple, yellow at the base. Raining Love lotus  produces viable seed so it maybe used to produce new lotus cultivars. N. ‘Raining Love’ won first prize in the competition of the New Lotus Cultivars at the 21st National Lotus Exhibition, 2007.