What is the botanical name of lotus?

give me 10 sentences about lotus flower

What is the botanical name of lotus?
Here you find the scientific names and much more than 10 sentences:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo_nuc...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_lily


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_a_lo...


Hope, it`s what you are looking for.
Reply:Nelumbo nucifera
Reply:Nelumbo nucifera is the Indian blue water lily type of lotus


Nelumbo lutea is the American lotus


Nymphaea caerulea is the Egyptian blue lotus/water lily


and Nymphaea lotus is the white Egyptian tiger lotus/water lily
Reply:Lotus belong to the genus - Nelumbo (Family Nelumbaceae)
Reply:Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.)