plant

Blue lotus

Nature

The named Nymphaea caerulea of Egyptian art and scent. Not lotus as the Lots/ Nelumbo padma card, and not white Nile water-lily as the same bloom.

Also known as Nymphaea caerulea · Egyptian blue lotus · Blue water lily

  • Blue lotus is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists Egyptian lotos / nymphaea-neighborhood water-lilies among cooling flower and root drugs. A named blue lotus in that handbook, not Nelumbo padma as the unresolved lotus entity and not lily as the garden krinon already walked.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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