Lotus flower (lotus flower) belongs to the order Longan, lotus family, is a common name for two species of plants in the lotus genus.
Lotus flowers are also known as lotus flowers, water hibiscus and so on. It is a perennial aquatic herb of the genus Lotus.
The underground stem is long and thick, with long nodes and rounded leaf shields.
The flowering period is from June to September, solitary at the top of the peduncle, with most petals, embedded in the flower tray, red, pink, white, purple and other colors, or with color patterns and trims. The nuts are oval in shape and the seeds are ovate.
There are many types of lotus flowers, which are divided into two categories: ornamental and edible. Native to tropical and temperate regions of Asia, it has been cultivated in China as early as the Zhou Dynasty.
Lotus flowers are treasured all over the body, lotus and lotus seeds can be eaten, lotus seeds, rhizomes, lotus knots, lotus leaves, flowers and seeds of germs can be used in medicine.
His character of producing sludge and not staining is always praised by the world. "The lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are different red" is a true portrayal of the beauty of the lotus flower.
The noble character of the lotus flower" is "straight in the middle and straight, not vines and branches, out of the mud and not stained, and clean and not demon", which has always been one of the themes of the poets and inker songs and paintings of ancient and modern poets.
In May 1985, the lotus flower was rated as one of the top ten famous flowers in China. The lotus flower is the national flower of India and Vietnam.
Known as a "living fossil", the "lotus" is one of the earliest plants of angiosperms.
The earliest Collection of Chinese poetry, the Book of Poetry, contains descriptions of lotus flowers: "The mountains have Fusu, The Sui and the Lotus", and "The Pi Ze Pi, there are Pu and lotus".
Lotus flowers were introduced as ornamental plants to garden ponds, as early as 473 BC, when Wu Wang Fuchai built a "playing flower pond" in his palace (that is, Suzhou Lingyan Mountain) for his pet concubine Xi to give lotus.
Lotus leaves are large, up to 70 cm in diameter, fully linear, shield-shaped and round, with 14-21 radial veins. The leaf surface is dark green, rough, and covered with short blunt spines. There is a layer of waxy white powder between the spines, so it can make the rain condense into rolling water droplets.
The back of the leaf is green, smooth and hairless, the veins are raised, and there is a cylindrical petiole in the center that lifts the lotus leaf out of the water. The stalk is inverted with dense spines, the petiole is white at the junction with the underground stem, and the water and water parts are green.
Lotus flowers stretch from Hainan Island in the south (around 19 degrees north latitude) in the north, Fujin in Heilongjiang in the north (47.3 degrees north latitude), Shanghai and Taiwan Province in the east, and the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains in the west, and are distributed in most parts of the country except the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. The vertical distribution can reach an altitude of 2000 meters, and can also be seen in the deep mountain ponds and swamps of Qinling and Shennongjia.
Lotus flowers are generally distributed in Subtropical and Temperate Regions such as Central Asia, West Asia, North America, India, China, and Japan.
Lián péng is also known as: lotus seed meat; lotus fruit; water zhidan; lotus seed; lotus fruit; puff meat. Lotus room boiling tea can prevent diabetes, sun-dried lotus poncho, can be boiled soup with rock sugar to drink, taste bitter and astringent, for the treatment of stasis with medicine, can cure postpartum fetal clothing, lotus seeds, lotus buds are good Chinese medicine.
According to legend, Lotus flower is the embodiment of a beautiful maid by the side of the Queen Mother's mother, Yu Ji.