Claude Bouch'e created tropical night blooming hybrids, all in 1852 and 1853, 16 of them named. Seven of them were the result of pollination of N. rubra with pollen of N. lotus, while the rest were pollinations of the resulting hybrids with pollen of N. lotus. The best known of these was N. 'Boucheana', first described by Planchon in Flore des Serres et des jardins de l'Europe, Volume 10, 1855. One might wonder how seven different hybrids could be created from the same cross of two species but we propose that N. rubra was capable of producing varying shades. Descriptions of all 16 can be found in "The Bouché Nymphaea Hybrids" (German - English) by Professor Dr. Karl Koch, published in Allgemeine Gartenzeitung, No. 35, 1857.