Lotus is now found in many large cities both are planted in pots, or in the garden pond. The main communities in the urban elite to use the water lotus plants are as ornamental plants add beauty to your home or landscaping the yard. In the countryside was widely planted lotus has long been mainly in the swimming-pool which is useful in addition to decorative ponds, as well as for food fish, especially carp.
Lotus plants are usually grown as an ornamental pond. His features that can beautify the park in beautiful mansions. Especially when the flowers are blooming, the more enliven the atmosphere. However, it may be among us did not know that this beauty can be processed into food was delicious and any efficacy for health in order to cure various diseases.
Plants have two types of lotus lotus (Nymphaea pubescens Willd) and Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbo Nelumbium Gaernth). Many people think that these two plants is the same, because the shape of flowers that are similar and are difficult to distinguish. But actually there is a particular feature to distinguish and identify these two plants.