Nymphaea lotus Coptic flag. Claire Waight Keller included the flower to represent Malawi in Meghan Markle's wedding veil, which included the distinctive flora of each Commonwealth country. In some parts of Africa the rhizomes and tubers are eaten for the starch they contain either boiled, roasted or ground to a flour after drying. The young fruits are sometimes consumed as a salad. The seeds are turned into a meal. The tubers or the seeds are used as a famine food in India. The ancient Egyptians cultivated the white lotus in ponds and marshes. This flower often appears in ancient Egyptian decorations. They
Lotus tenellus Lotus tenellus Lotus tenellus is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Canary Islands. Some authors have included "L. tenellus" in "Lotus glaucus", a species found in Madeira and the Salvage Islands. "L. leptophyllus" may be treated as a synonym of "L. tenellus" or as a separate species. "L. tenellus" has yellow flowers, with usually no more than three flowers in each flower head (umbel). Its leaves are made up of five leaflets. "Lotus tenellus" is a perennial herbaceous or shrubby plant. The leaves are either unstalked (sessile) or have a very short petiole, and