Lotus Flower, What are the benefits?

Lotus flower is a flower of the lotus plant. Lotus plants are widely used as ornamental plants, to beautify the pond fish and other pond-column. Lotus plant roots can also be used as either handmade bags, spoons, hats and many more are very good and highly valued for sale. 

Lotus garden used by the manufacturer as a filler element garden pond. This flower can eliminate the stiffness form swimming pool and add beauty. Lotus flower colors include a wide range of white lotus, red, purple, blue, pink. White lotus including lotus with classic colors. Wild white lotus are often found by us in the wetlands. White lotus flower has a diameter variation from small to large. 

Lotus is cultivated in the waters and ponds, sometimes found growing wild in the swamp. It is Aquatic plants that grow upright. A thick scaly rhizomes, growing creeper. Leaves and flowers come out directly from the rhizome attached to the mud at the bottom of the pool. Leaf blade width and round, supported by a long stalk and spherical diameter from 0.5 to 1 cm, length of 75-150 cm. The leaves poking above the surface of water, towering up like a shield. Waxy leaf surface; whitish green color, flat edge, the middle slightly hollowed, Bone leaves spread from the center toward the edges of leaves, diameter of 30-50 cm. 


The flowers are fragrant, grows towering above the water surface with a long round and sturdy stems, flower stalk length of 75-200 cm. Flower diameter 15-25 cm, stamens many yellow anthers, petals wide, there is the ankle and there is a double with pink, white and yellow. Flowers bloom all day from morning till evening. After wilting, falling petals basis until the remaining interest will be going to pieces, shaped like inverted cones with a flat surface like a sponge and perforated - the holes contain 15-30 seeds, the color is yellowish green, then green and finally dark brown, diameter 6 - 11 cm.

The Seeds are  like a peanut, found in the holes of fruit shaped like a wasp nest. Seeds that are old blackish green color, age about 1 month after flowers bloom.

The leaves are commonly used as packing materials, young rhizomes and seeds are edible. Buddhists regard this flower as a symbol of purity, reflected in the various paintings and sculptures depicting the meditating Buddha sitting on lotus flowers. 

Hybrid of Lotus can produce a wide range of color combinations. The figure of the plant and its leaves of a hybrid that was introduced by plant breeders also varies. In accordance with the tastes of fans of this water plant, nursery, nursery providing lotus plants from crosses. 

Lotus cultivation is fairly easy. Propagation of plants, treatment plants to combat pests and diseases can be done by everyone. The goal is distinguished by farmers cultivating lotus in two. The first objective, Raising lotus for ornamental plants. The second objective, to get a lotus cultivation of fruit and vegetables. But the two objectives have the same technical cultivation. 

Propagation of the lotus plant can be done in two ways. The first way, multiplication using seeds (generative). Fruit inverted cone-shaped white lotus. The fruit can float on water. Lotus seeds germinate easily in the media mud. The second method, using a network of vegetative propagation. Vegetative propagation is often used by lovers of ornamental plants. Ornamental plant lovers separated only chicks that emerge.
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