Fruits & Vegetables Week: RVS-17

[Vijayasankar]

Our Indian Sacred Lotus! Rootstock and stolon (stem) are used as vegetable. Seeds are eaten.

Note: I request members to view my earlier postings labled as "Flora of Manipur" for a variety of wild edibles and vegetables from Manipur, Northeast India.

Regards

 

 

Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Natural Products Research
Thad Cochran Research Center
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
Phone: +1 662 915 1018

[Dinesh Valke]

NATIVE, WILD, CULTIVATED :: Nelumbonaceae (lotus family) » Nelumbo nucifera
Synonyms: Nelumbium speciosum, Nelumbo speciosa, Nymphaea nelumbo


nee-LUM-bo or nay-LUM-bo -- Latinized form of aboriginal name
noo-SIFF-er-uh -- nut-bearing


commonly known as: Indian lotus, lotus, oriental lotus, sacred lotus • Assamese: পদম padam • Bengali: কমল komol • Gujarati: motunkamal • Hindi: कमल kamal, कन्वल kanwal • Kannada: ತಾವರೆ tavare • Malayalam: താമര tamara • Manipuri: থম্বাল thambal • Marathi: कमळ kamal • Oriya: ପଦମ padam • Sanskrit: अम्बुज ambuj, कमल kamala, पद्म padma, पंकज pankaja, सरसिज sarsija, शारदा sharada • Tamil: அம்பல் ambal, தாமரை tamarai • Telugu: తామర tamara • Urdu: نیلوفر nilufer


Native to: south-east Asia



Edible use:

... flowers, seeds, young leaves, and roots (rhizomes) are all edible

Symbolic status:

... National Flower of India
... National Flower of Vietnam

Religious status:

... divine symbol ... most Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, and other Asian deities are depicted as seated on a lotus flower

 

[Vijayasankar]

Dear Dinesh ji, inadvertently you have linked the pictures of Nymphaea instead of Nelumbo here.

 

Regards

 

 

Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Natural Products Research
Thad Cochran Research Center
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677
Phone: +1 662 915 1018

[Dinesh Valke]

Thank you very much for pointing it out Vijayasankar ji ... it was not inadvertent however !!
Mistook it for lotus ... believing the gardener at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
He had shown me some sort of seed pod and thermacole like seeds floating in the water-bed ... thus he had convinced me that it is not the water lily that I was believing !!

Thank you once again.
Regards.