Thank you very much for pointing it out Vijayasankar ji ... it was not inadvertent however !! Mistook it for lotus ... believing the gardener at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. He had shown me some sort of seed pod and thermacole like seeds floating in the water-bed ... thus he had convinced me that it is not the water lily that I was believing !!
Thank you once again. Regards. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Dinesh ji, inadvertently you have linked the pictures of Nymphaea > instead of Nelumbo here. > > > Regards > > > Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. > Post Doctoral Research Associate > National Center for Natural Products Research > Thad Cochran Research Center > University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677 > Phone: +1 662 915 1018 > > > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> *NATIVE, WILD, CULTIVATED* :: Nelumbonaceae (lotus family) » *Nelumbo >> nucifera* >> *Synonyms*: *Nelumbium speciosum, Nelumbo speciosa, Nymphaea nelumbo* >> >> >> *nee-LUM-bo* or *nay-LUM-bo* -- Latinized form of aboriginal name >> *noo-SIFF-er-uh* -- nut-bearing >> >> >> *commonly known as*: Indian lotus, lotus, oriental lotus, sacred lotus • >> Assamese: পদম padam • Bengali: কমল komol • Gujarati: motunkamal • Hindi: कमल >> kamal, कन्वल kanwal • Kannada: ತಾವರೆ tavare • Malayalam: താമര tamara • >> Manipuri: থম্বাল thambal • Marathi: कमळ kamal • Oriya: ପଦମ padam • Sanskrit: >> अम्बुज ambuj, कमल kamala, पद्म padma, पंकज pankaja, सरसिज sarsija, शारदा >> sharada • Tamil: அம்பல் ambal, தாமரை tamarai • Telugu: తామర tamara • Urdu: >> نیلوفر nilufer >> >> >> *Native to*: south-east Asia >> >> >> >> *Edible use*: >> >> ... flowers, seeds, young leaves, and roots (rhizomes) are all edible >> >> >> >> *Symbolic status*: >> >> ... National Flower of India >> ... National Flower of Vietnam >> >> >> >> *Religious status*: >> >> ... divine symbol ... most Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, and other >> Asian deities are depicted as seated on a lotus flower >> >> >> >> > >
