Different species: Lotus belongs to a kind of lotus, and lotus is the general name of lotus plants. The leaves are different: the lotus leaf is small and oval, the leaves are above the water, and the lotus leaf is horseshoe-shaped and close to the water.
Flowers are different: the lotus is bigger, the petals are double, the lotus is inverted cone, and the colors are various.
Lotus is bigger than lotus. Lotus is a double flower with many petals, so it is fuller and has two colors: white and red, while lotus is an inverted cone with four colors: white, pink, red and yellow.