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

A mythological plant:

• Lotus tree, the mythological incarnation of Lotis

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