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 effect in Asia long before (reference to the lotus effect is found in the "Bhagavad Gita",) its mechanism was explained only in the early 1970s after the introduction of the scanning electron microscope. Studies were performed with leaves of "Tropaeolum" and lotus ("Nelumbo"). "The Lotus Effect" is a registered trademark of STO SE & CO. KGAA (US Registration No. 2613850). Lotus effect The lotus effect refers to self-cleaning properties that are a result of ultrahydrophobicity as exhibited by the leaves of "Nelumbo" or "lotus flower". Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to the micro- and nanoscopic architecture on