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  • The effort to halt the spread of Nelumbo nucifera is now showing excellent results.

    Po Basin mixed forests 2008

  • There are also broad-leaved plants such as Sagittaria and floating aquatic plants such as Nymphaea, Nelumbo, and the yellow pond lily Numphar.

    Wetland classifications 2008

  • This problem is compounded by the increasing biomass of the lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, a fast-growing, aggressive exotic plant, which, in addition to hampering the flow of water through river channels, is also suffocating the original native flora.

    Po Basin mixed forests 2008

  • Rare aquatic plants of the Volga delta unclude Aldrovanda veiculosa and Nelumbo caspica.

    Caspian lowland desert 2008

  • There were lotus ponds too, in which the glorious lily, Nelumbo nucifera, is being grown for the sacrilegious purpose of being eaten!

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Lotus Root Lotus root is the mud-dwelling rhizome of Nelumbo nucifera, a water lily native to Asia that has North American and Egyptian relatives.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Lotus Root Lotus root is the mud-dwelling rhizome of Nelumbo nucifera, a water lily native to Asia that has North American and Egyptian relatives.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • In China, there are some commercial products called Jieyanling and Jieyancha, in which certain herbal medicines such as Folium, Nelumbo nucifera (lotus leaf), etc. are added, so that the smoker senses a deplorable odour when they contact the cigarette smoke, hence give up the smoking habit voluntarily.

    Chapter 8 1991

  • Yam bean (Pachyrrhizus erosus) AppendixesLotus root (Nelumbo nucifera)

    Chapter 22 1987

  • [On the rhizome rot of lotus, Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. caused by a new fusarium F. bulbigenum Wr. nelumbicolum Nis. et Wat.]

    Chapter 22 1987

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