Lotus (details)
There are many kinds of lotus flowers, which are divided into ornamental and edible categories. China is native to tropical and temperate Asia and was planted as early as the Zhou Dynasty. Lotus is precious all over the body, lotus root and lotus seed are edible, and the germ of lotus seed, rhizome, lotus node, lotus leaf, flower and seed can be used as medicine. The rhizome of lotus is transverse, stout, with swollen internodes, multiple longitudinal airways inside, constricted internodes, black scales at the top and hairy adventitious roots at the bottom.
Chinese name: Lotus
Latin scientific name: lotus; lotus
Nicknames: lotus, water hibiscus, lotus root, lotus, water, water bloom, Zezhi, Chinese lotus.
Field: the field of plants
Phylum: Angiosperm phylum
Category: Dicotyledonous plants
Subclass: primitive perianth subclass
Objective: Ranunculaceae
Division: Water Lily (Details) Division
Yayako; Liansubfamily
Genus: Lotus
Species: Lotus and American Lotus.
Named after the year of HeNian: Gelter. Fructose. And Semin. 1788
English name: Lotus