Benefits and History of Lotus Flower

1. benefit
There are several benefits of this interest, in this article will explained briefly about the introduction of the lotus flower and its benefits.
 

Lotus flowers are very beautiful to look so widely used as an ornamental pond in the gardens. Rhizome good to eat and are widely used in Japanese cuisine, Chinese cuisine, and Indian cuisine. Rhizomes are eaten raw can be a source of transmission of metode parasites.
 

Seeds rich in starch that can be eaten or processed into food. Seeds are boiled, mashed and mixed into the contents of sugar moon cakes are eaten on Mid-Autumn Festival In China, the seeds are still young drunk as a tea substitute. Excrescence with holes like a honeycomb in the dried form is sold as a supplement in the art of dried flower arranging.
 

The leaves are wide, so often used as a wrapper, mainly in traditional fish wrapper before use of plastic bags became popular.
planting techniques
lotus plant can breed of old seed or rhizome. Lotus can be planted in pots containing a watery mud.

 

2. history
In ancient Egypt, Lotus found growing together with Lotus Nymphaea caerulea species on the edge of the Nile. Egyptian Pharaonic era glorifies Lotus plants, so that flowers, fruit, leaf and petal motifs used in temple architecture. From Egypt, Lotus was taken into Assyrian and spread to Persia, India, and China. In 1787, Sir Joseph Banks to bring Lotus to Western Europe to be grown in a greenhouse at the botanical gardens.

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