What does a lotus seedling look like
The lotus seedling (lián peng): also known as the lotus seedling, buried in the lotus pistil inverted cone-shaped spongy receptacle. The surface of the receptacle has a majority of scattered honeycomb-shaped holes, which gradually expand after fertilization and called the rosette. Inside each hole there is a small nut that is the lotus seed, lotus seed in the middle of the growth of a lotus core, can be used for medicinal purposes, to reduce fire, fruit ripening period for September ~ October. Its water requirements by its varieties, large plant-shaped varieties such as ancient lotus, red thousand leaves relative water level deeper, but not more than 1.7 meters. Small and medium plant shape is only suitable for 20 to 60 centimeters of water depth.
Traits of lotus seedpods
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Synonyms lotus shell (《海上方》), lotus shell (《儒门事亲》).
Synonym
The source is the mature receptacle of lotus, family Water Lily. Botanical details of lotus seed article. ?
Collected in the fall when the fruit is ripe, cut off the lotus seed, remove the fruit (lotus seed) and stalks, sun dry.
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Herbs dried receptacle slightly inverted conical, more ruptured, the top surface rounded and flat, diameter 7 ~ 10 cm, height 3 ~ 8 cm. The herb is also known as the "Botrytis cinerea".
Surface purple-red or gray-brown, with longitudinal lines and longitudinal wrinkles, the top surface has most of the removal of the fruit left round holes, honeycomb, the base of the pedicel residue. The fruit has a longitudinal pattern and longitudinal wrinkles on the top surface.
The texture is fluffy like sponge. ?
Growth habit
The lotus is an aquatic plant, preferring relatively stable calm shallow water, lakes, swamps, ponds are its habitat. At the same time it is very sensitive to water loss, as long as 3 hours in summer without irrigation, tank planted lotus leaves will wither, if the water stops for a day, the lotus leaves edge scorched, buds back to wither. It is also very light-loving, fertility needs full light environment. It is extremely intolerant of shade, growing in the half-shade will show strong phototropism.
Preferring high heat and humidity, varieties distributed in temperate zones will wither in the evergreen parts of the soil in winter, and the rootstock will expand. Tropical varieties do not wither the evergreen parts and the stems are not obvious.
Perennial aquatic plants, aquatic perennial, underground stems buried deep in the water in the mud, summer flowering, flowers stand alone. Seeds with hard impermeable seed coat, can be kept for thousands of years without rotting.