Whisker-like adventitious roots, attached to the underground stem nodes, fascicles, 5-8 bundles per node, each bundle has 7-21 adventitious roots. The root system is shallow and weak. Root regeneration ability is weak. Susceptible to high concentrations of fertilizers and salts.

Large, simple leaves, arising upward from the nodes of the stem, long-stalked. The leaf blade begins to roll longitudinally and later spreads out, suborbicular, entire, green, and covered with waxy powder. The center of the leaf veins is connected to the petiole and is called the "leaf nose", which is the aperture of the lotus leaf and communicates with the petiole and the airway in the underground stem.

The flowers, commonly called "lotus flowers", are borne on the nodes of some of the larger standing leaves. The flowers are solitary, with a multi-petaled corolla, and hermaphroditic. The fruit is commonly known as "lotus seed", in which scattered embedded lotus seeds, is the real fruit, is a nutlet, with a seed, from flowering to seed maturity 30-40d.

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Lotus root is a plant with high medicinal value. It contains tannin, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea. Eating lotus root also improves appetite, which is ideal for people with loss of appetite. Mucin and dietary fiber in lotus root can combine with bile acid salts in the body and cholesterol in food to make it excreted from feces and reduce lipid absorption.

Winter people often due to dry weather, diet overheating and lead to fire, eat some lotus root, can clear heat and moisturize dryness. Lotus root exudes a unique fragrance, into the soup, you can play the effect of removing grease, neutralize the taste. Eat hot pot with a little lotus root, not only to remove oil and grease, and meat warm and cool complementary, but also as a staple food.

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