I bow to your greater experience of the subject Moose. I have just
been reading a book ("Kngs of Albion", Julian Rathbone) in which one of
the characters, an inhabitant of southern India, sees a water lily in
Europe and recognises it as a lotus. The book is part fiction, part
historical documentary (the Wars of the Roses in England), so perhaps
this was the author's personal supposition rather than one of the
factual bits ;-).
Chris
On 29 Aug 2004, at 6:03, Moose wrote:
> Both are members of family Nymphaeaceae, perhaps. Water lillies, of
> which there are hundreds of commercial varieties, are of genus
> Nymphaea. White Egyptian Lotuses are of the same genus. The Indian
> Lotus
> is Genus Nelumbo, although according to one site, "Many botanists place
> the genus Nelumbo in its own family, the Nelumbonaceae."
>
> Whatever the botanists say, the many water lillies I have seen are
> different in many ways from the Indian Lotus in size, coloration, shape
> of petals, seed pod, leaves and height above the water. In the photo I
> posted <http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/IMG_1111.jpg>, the little red
> flowers on the lower right are water lillies.
>
> Moose
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> Aren't they the same thing, given different names by different races
>> or
>> ethnic groups?
>>
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