Both are members of family Nymphaeaceae, perhaps. Water lillies, of
which there are hundreds of commercial varieties, are of genus
Nymphaea. White Egyptian Lotuses are of the same genus. The Indian Lotus
is Genus Nelumbo, although according to one site, "Many botanists place
the genus Nelumbo in its own family, the Nelumbonaceae."
Whatever the botanists say, the many water lillies I have seen are
different in many ways from the Indian Lotus in size, coloration, shape
of petals, seed pod, leaves and height above the water. In the photo I
posted <http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/IMG_1111.jpg>, the little red
flowers on the lower right are water lillies.
Moose
Chris Barker wrote:
>Aren't they the same thing, given different names by different races or
>ethnic groups?
>
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