There are only two specie of lotus in the world : the American lotus or American lotus ( Nelumbo lutea ) and the Asiatic hallowed Nymphaea lotus ( Nelumbo nucifera ) . Today , many crossbreed lotus free grace garden with flowers ranging in color from white and yellow to pink , rose , magenta , stunner and precious coral and gradation in between . All lotus flowers are day - blooming . develop from rhizomes , these aquatic plants draw out both their rounded leafage and flowers high above the water control surface in summer .

Emerging Flower

While the leaves are present in the warmth of summertime , a tall stem hike from the underwater rhizome root with a swollen bloom bud . The stem that attaches to the basis of the bloom bud is called the cerebral peduncle . The flower bud is covered in pallid green modified leave called sepals . The sepals slowly open to reveal the first colorful signs of the lotus flower ’s petals . Usually the sepals turn semblance to match the petals .

Flower Core

Once the sepals fully retract and allow the petal to spread out wide , the intimate organs are revealed in the center of the lotus flower . The flat - top , normally yellow-bellied cupful - like structure in the middle is called the carpellary receptacle . Atop the receptacle are many bumps that are stain , the tips of the distaff pistil that each domiciliate an ovule . Around the base of the receptacle , force next to the petal bases are the male organs , the stamens . Numerous stamens with petite stalking - similar filaments are topped by the anthers , which split open to release the pollen . Wind and insects relocate pollen grains to the receptive brand on the top of the carpellary receptacle .

Seed Capsule

After pollination of the stigmas on the female pistils , the entire lotus flower begins to descend apart – stamen , petals , sepal drop to the water surface and float out . The carpellary receptacle begins to intumesce as each fertilise ovule in the base of each pistil train into a cum . The receptacle broadens and slowly start to ripen and dry , eventually turning a brownish colouring material . Within each hole or depression is an conceptus that get on to a wry brown semen . The peduncle start to dry and tilt the receptacle , now a seminal fluid condensation , so that the advanced seeds can range out of the pits into the pee . Sometimes the entire base flops over into the piss from winds or the sheer exercising weight of the ejaculate .

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