Nelumbo nucifera
Plant Height: Mini/Bowl (depending on pot size)
Flower Color: Versicolor, White with Pink
Flower Type: Multi-Petal (> 50 petals)
Pot Size: 8"-16" wide, 6"-10" deep
Beauty Gan is a gorgeous Chinese lotus from the Beauty Series of Yileen Water Gardens in Nanjing, China. Its lavish, multi-layered blooms combine creamy ivory petals with delicate blush-pink and rose edging, surrounding a fresh green-gold center. Soft, romantic, and beautifully complex, Beauty Gan has the appearance of a lotus painted in warm watercolor tones.
Beauty Gan has the kind of appearance that feels both traditional and luxurious: a refined Chinese lotus with the gentle coloring of a hand-painted flower. It is an especially lovely choice for gardeners who appreciate full, layered blooms and subtle multi-toned coloration.
The flower opens into a large, densely petaled bloom, with layer upon layer of gently overlapping petals creating an almost peony-like fullness. Its base color is a delicate ivory to creamy white, while the petal edges and outer layers carry a subtle blush-pink to rose tint. The pink becomes more pronounced toward the tips and margins, giving the flower a beautifully painted appearance rather than a uniform color.
At the center, the greenish-yellow lotus receptacle provides a striking focal point, surrounded by a ring of pale stamens. The combination of the warm yellow-green center, creamy petals, and touches of pink gives Beauty Gan a particularly soft, elegant, and luminous presence.
What makes this lotus especially appealing is the way its colors seem to blend rather than contrast—cream, warm ivory, pale pink, and rose appear almost watercolor-like across the petals. The outer petals form a broad, graceful frame around the fuller inner layers, giving the bloom considerable depth and dimension.