Flower cultivation skills: the presbyopia teaches you how to distinguish between lotus and lotus!

The lotus is also known as the lotus. Is the lotus the lotus? Water lilies can also be called lotus flowers. What about lotus flowers? Is it a bit of a hoop? Warm home old gardener Xiaobian taught us how to distinguish lotus from lotus in the end.

To be exact, the lotus belongs to the order Nymphaeae, which is a perennial aquatic herb. But unlike water lilies, it has strong, thick and underground roots, which are known as lotus roots. Lotus flowers and leaves are high above the water, up to 1 meter high, graceful and graceful. The flowering period of the lotus is basically from June to September every year, born at the top of the pedicel, and the flowers are huge and beautiful. Lotus is mainly divided into ornamental and edible, in which the latter lotus root and lotus seed are edible.

The lotus is covered with treasures all over the body. Its lotus seeds, lotus root nodes, lotus leaves, roots, flowers and seeds can be used as medicine. This kind of plant, which has been recorded since the Zhou Dynasty in China, has been praised by the world for its noble character of coming out of the mud and not stained. And Chinese literati and painters of all ages also mostly take lotus as the object of creation. Lotus is one of the top ten famous flowers in China, which is highly ornamental and practical.

The lotus is somewhat similar to the lotus in appearance. It is also a perennial aquatic herb. It also has oval leaves and floats on the water all the year round. There are many kinds of water lilies. Its petals are usually eight petals, and the flower shape is also very beautiful. It usually opens in the daytime under the light of natural light, but closes at night. Most of the flowers and leaves of water lilies float close to the water surface, only slightly above the water surface, and there are obvious V-shaped gaps in the leaves.

The lotus, which also belongs to the genus Nymphae, has much less application than the lotus. In addition to the roots that can be used as medicine, only flowers can be used to soak flowers or make perfumes, with a light and elegant fragrance. No one has used water lilies to describe noble character, and its nature of drifting with the tide without strong roots makes duckweed a derogatory term for frivolous and shallow people, in sharp contrast to the noble image of lotus.

In addition, there is a very intuitive difference between lotus and lotus, that is, the color of lotus is usually light pink, while water lilies have many kinds of white, blue, yellow, red and so on. After reading the editor's introduction, I believe you can easily tell the difference between the lotus and the lotus.