This time-lapse takes on how a lotus/nelumbo nucifera seed sprouting, rooting, and growing into plants. A small hole was ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 39, No. 163 (September 1975), pp. 901-913 (21 pages) In common with other aquatic angiosperms, Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. has a relatively strongly developed phloem tissue. The ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Mar., 1968), pp. 295-301 (7 pages) Contrary to earlier reports, well-organized but fewer stomata develop on the lower surface of the leaves of Nelumbo ...

Indian water lotuses, also known as sacred lotuses, are in Flint Pond, just south of Route 20 in Shrewsbury. They look like ...