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Nelumbo Nucifera Lotus WE DO NOT SHIP PLANTS. LOCAL PICK UP ONLY
Hindu Lotus. Large 12" blossoms with creamy petals edged with rose-pink.
- Common Name: sacred lotus
- Type: Herbaceous perennial
- Family: Nelumbonaceae
- Native Range: Asia and northern Australia
- Zone: 4 to 10
- Height: 3.00 to 6.00 feet
- Spread: 3.00 to 4.00 feet
- Bloom Time: June to July
- Bloom Description: Pink or white
- Sun: Full sun
- Water: Wet
- Maintenance: Low
- Suggested Use: Annual, Water Plant, Naturalize, Rain Garden
- Flower: Showy, Fragrant
Nelumbo nucifera is commonly called sacred lotus in reference to the sacred and symbolic status the flower holds in Buddhism and Hinduism.
Each flower blooms for about three days, opening in the morning and closing at night each day.
Flowers are followed by nut-like fruits that are imbedded in the flat surface of a turbinate (inversely conical) receptacle (2-3” diameter) which resembles the shape of a watering can rose. The rhizomes, leaves and seeds of lotus are edible and are sometimes used in Asian cooking.
LOTUS PLANT CARE: - The Lotus plant should be fertilized sparingly for the first year.
- Too much fertilizer may cause the Lotus foliage to burn.
- A Lotus plant that is established can be fed every 3 or 4 weeks during the growing season.
- Care must be taken when inserting fertilizer tabs, because the growing tip and new growth can be damaged.
- It is important to protect the Lotus roots from freezing.
- Lotus can winter over in the pond if the pond depth is below the freeze line for your area.
- In late fall, the yellowed foliage should be cut off and the plant lowered to the deepest part of the pond.
- Or you may lift the tubers after the plant has died back during the fall.
- If you lift the tubers, store them in a cool, frost-free location until late spring.
- To help prevent mildew and rotting, store them in living sphagnum moss
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