Lotus (Nelumbo Nucifera) better known or often equated people with lotus (NYMPHAEA). If viewed at a glance the eye, it is rather difficult to distinguish the lotus with the lotus plant, because the lotus and the lotus is still a family that look very similar.
The fundamental difference is the growth pattern. Lotus grows upward, while the lotus grows horizontally-wide. Lotus flower color is limited, such as yellow, white, and pink, while the lotus flower is more diverse. In the classification of plants, including the genus Nelumbo lotus, lotus while including the genus Nymphaeae.
The fundamental difference is the growth pattern. Lotus grows upward, while the lotus grows horizontally-wide. Lotus flower color is limited, such as yellow, white, and pink, while the lotus flower is more diverse. In the classification of plants, including the genus Nelumbo lotus, lotus while including the genus Nymphaeae.
This flower has three attraction, located in part:
1. Interest The flowers that grow in atai towering stalks, oval-shaped with the tip of the taper. When not blooming, the flower looks similar to a bowl of soup. After blooming, the petals spread, but some are still facing up. The term of this flower bloom is only about 3-4 days. Flower color associated with country of origin. An example comes from the American yellow lotus, white from India, and Pink from China.
2. Leaf Lotus leaf shape is rounded wide, with wavy edges. From afar, the leaves of the lotus looks like a line of umbrellas that are expanding. The color of the upper leaves grayish green, the color beneath younger. Leaf surface feels smooth and supple as shrouded in a layer of wax.
3. Stalk In the stems are also not less interesting to other parts, because the lotus stems towering to 180 cm, while the stem leaves reached 100 cm. The shaft is very flexible but strong and not easily broken wind rocked.
If you are interested to plant a lotus in the yard, here's how:
* Make sure the area around it gets sun at least 4 to 6 hours a day (if not, forget it for the lotus plant, because it will not get optimal results.) * Select a container of water in the form of wide-mouthed pot or jar. * Fill half the mud or soil from the container. * Remove the plants from the bucket of this plant is generally sold using rubber bucket). * Immerse the whole plant roots following into a container that already contains the soil / mud. Stream water slowly using a hose into a container (pot), until full. * For a while, give support here and there. * Breeding naturally through seeds are old and falling into the water or the growing shoots of children through rhizome roots.