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Nelumbo lutea is a species of flowering plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. 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 ...
Nymphaea nelumbo. British 19th century, East Indian Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), late 19th century, National Gallery of Art, NGA 52325. Nelumbo nucifera, also known as sacred lotus, Indian lotus, [ 1 ] or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is sometimes colloquially called a water lily ...
Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. – sacred or Indian lotus, also known as the Rose of India and the sacred water lily of Hinduism and Buddhism. [ 20 ] It is the national flower of India and Vietnam. Its roots and seeds are also used widely in cooking in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Read on to learn more about the lotus flower's meaning and symbolism. About the Lotus Flower. Lotus flowers are native to India, east Africa, southeast Asia, and Australia. They root themselves in ...
Lotus, a latinization of Greek lōtos (λωτός), [ 2 ] is a genus of flowering plants that includes most bird's-foot trefoils (also known as bacon-and-eggs[ 3 ]) and deervetches[ 4 ] and contains many dozens of species distributed in the eastern hemisphere, including Africa, Europe, western, southern, and eastern Asia, and Australia and New ...
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Jin Ping Mei (Chinese: 金瓶梅)—translated into English as The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus —is a Chinese novel of manners composed in vernacular Chinese during the latter half of the 16th century during the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Consisting of 100 chapters, it was published under the pseudonym Lanling Xiaoxiao ...
A Syrian terra-cotta plaque from the 14th–13th centuries BC shows the goddess Asherah holding two lotus blossoms. An ivory panel from the 9th-8th centuries BC shows the god Horus seated on a lotus blossom, flanked by two cherubs. [27] There is a Polish poem by 19th-century poet Juliusz Słowacki in which the rhizomes are eaten.