Lotus (plant)
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Lotus identifies various plant
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A mythological plant:
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
taxa:
- NelumboNelumboNelumbo is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers resembling water lilies, commonly known as lotus. The generic name is derived from the Sinhalese word Nelum. There are only two known living species in the genus. The sacred lotus is native to Asia, and is the better known of the two...
, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers- Nelumbo nuciferaNelumbo nuciferaNelumbo nucifera, known by a number of names including Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus, Bean of India, or simply Lotus, is a plant in the monogeneric family Nelumbonaceae...
, the Sacred or Indian lotus - Nelumbo luteaNelumbo luteaNelumbo lutea is a species of flowering plant in the monogeneric family Nelumbonaceae. Common names include American lotus, yellow lotus, water-chinquapin, and volée. It is native to North America...
, the American or Yellow lotus
- Nelumbo nucifera
- Certain species of NymphaeaNymphaeaNymphaea is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. There are about 50 species in the genus, which has a cosmopolitan distribution.-Name:The common name, shared with some other genera in the same family, is Water Lily....
(water lilies or Egyptian lotuses):- Nymphaea caeruleaNymphaea caeruleaNymphaea caerulea, also known as the Blue Egyptian water lily or sacred blue lily, is a water-lily in the genus Nymphaea.-Distribution:Its original habitat may have been along the Nile and other locations in East Africa...
, also known as blue lotus - Nymphaea lotusNymphaea lotusNymphaea lotus, the Tiger Lotus, White lotus or Egyptian White Water-lily, is a flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae-Description:It grows in various parts of East Africa and Southeast Asia....
, white lotus or sacred lotus - Nymphaea nouchaliNymphaea nouchaliNymphaea nouchali, commonly known as the Red and blue water lily, Blue star water lily, Star lotus, or by its synonym Nymphaea stellata, is a water lily of genus Nymphaea.-Distribution and habitat:...
, also known as star lotus
- Nymphaea caerulea
- Lotus (genus)Lotus (genus)Lotus is a genus that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches and contains many dozens of species distributed world-wide. Depending on the taxonomic authority, roughly between 70 and 150 are accepted. Lotus is a genus of legume and its members are adapted to a wide range of habitats, from...
(including bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches), a terrestrial genus with small flowers - Saussurea involucrata (snow lotus), a herbaceous species from the Himalayan vicinity
- Ziziphus lotusZiziphus lotusZiziphus lotus is a deciduous shrub in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, including the Sahara in Morocco.-Description:...
, a shrub species with edible fruit - Diospyros lotus, also known as date-plum or Caucasian persimmon, a tree with edible fruit chaitra
A mythological plant:
- Lotus treeLotus treeThe lotus tree is a plant that occurs in two stories from Greek mythology:* In Homer's Odyssey, the lotus bore a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness and was the only food of an island people called the Lotophagi or Lotus-eaters...
, the mythological incarnation of Lotis