title: List of plants known as lotus
text: # List of plants known as lotus
  
  Lotus identifies various plant taxa:
  
  * Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers
     * Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus
     * Nelumbo lutea, the American or yellow lotus
  * 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 blue or star lotus (sometimes thought to be the same species as Nymphaea caerulea above)
  * Lotus (genus) (including bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches), a terrestrial genus with small flowers
  * Saussurea (snow lotus), a herbaceous species from the Himalayan vicinity
  * Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit
  * Diospyros lotus (date-plum, Caucasian persimmon) a tree with edible fruit
  