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The lotus is often confused with the true water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, in particular N. caerulea, the "blue lotus."In fact, several older systems, such as the Bentham & Hooker system (which is widely used in the Indian subcontinent), refer to the lotus by its old synonym, Nymphaea nelumbo.
Common names include American lotus, yellow lotus, water-chinquapin, and volée. It is native to North America . The botanical name Nelumbo lutea Willd. is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names Nelumbium luteum and Nelumbo pentapetala , among others.
However, there are only two known living species of lotus. One is the better-known Nelumbo nucifera, which is native to East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and probably Australia and is commonly cultivated for consumption and use in traditional Chinese medicine. The other lotus is Nelumbo lutea, which is native to North America and the ...
Lotus, a latinization of Greek lōtos (), [2] is a genus of flowering plants that includes most bird's-foot trefoils (also known as bacon-and-eggs) [3] and deervetches. [4] Depending on the taxonomic authority, roughly between 70 and 150 species are accepted, all legumes; American species formerly placed in the genus have been transferred to other genera.
Certain species of Nymphaea, a genus of aquatic plants known as water lilies, are also known as Egyptian lotus or Egyptian water lily: Nymphaea caerulea, also known as blue lotus; Nymphaea lotus, white lotus or sacred lotus; Nymphaea nouchali, also known as blue or star lotus (sometimes thought to be the same species as Nymphaea caerulea above)
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Lotus germanicus is a species of plant in the genus Lotus ... This species is identified by cream white ...
Lotus aduncus species of Lotus that is native in Europe. [2] It is perennial and grows in a subtropical biome. It was first described in 1855 by Carl Fredrik Nyman .
List of plants known as lotus, a list of various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: Nelumbo nucifera, the lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also known as Indian or sacred lotus; Lotus, a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae; Lotus tree, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology