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Nelumbo nucifera

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This genus of the water-lily or NYMPHACACEAE family is an aquatic herb with stout, cree** rhizome. The leaves are peltate, 60–90 cm or more in diameter, orbicular and glaucous. Petioles are very long, smooth or with small prickles. The flowers are solitary, large and white or rosy; fruittorus is large, top-shaped, 5–10 cm in diameter, spongy, with 10–30 uniovulate carpels sunk separately in cavities on the upper side. The carpels mature into ovoid nutlike achenes.

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