It is a kind of fruit, only the degree of processing is different. Fresh lotus seeds dried into the stone lotus seed, stone lotus seed shell broken into red lotus seed, red lotus seed peeled (back off the lotus coat) into the white lotus seed

Just lotus according to the origin of China's three major lotus: Xianglian, Jianlian, Ganlian, Shandong, Guangxi, and other regions there are a few, but Xiangtan, Hunan Xianglian is the most famous, the ancient is the tribute to the tribute of a one inch, three lotus.

Now Vietnam also has lotus seed planting, but the category is not the same.