Lotus 
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Lotus identifies various plant taxa:
-  Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers, and the source of lotus seeds used in Chinese medicine and desserts.
- Nelumbo nucifera, an archetypal species in the genus
 
 
-  Certain species of Nymphaea (water lilies or Egyptian lotuses):
- Nymphaea caerulea, also known as blue lotus
 - Nymphaea lotus, white lotus or sacred lotus
 - Nymphaea nouchali, also known as star lotus
 
 
- Lotus (genus) (including bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches), a terrestrial genus with small flowers
 - Saussurea laniceps (snow lotus), an herbaceous species from the Himalayan vicinity
 - Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit