Nymphaea lotus L.
Water Lily / Seroja air putih (M.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Perennial aquatic plant that floats on water surface and rises above the water when blooming. The flower can reach 45 cm tall above the water. Leaves are circular to cordate, firstly forming underwater before forming on the water surface, adaxially green and sparsely hairy and abaxially purplish. Leaf blade is nearly orbiculate with toothed margin and radiate venation. Flowers are white, sometimes with pink tinge and slightly fragrant. It opens during nighttime, many of the flowers do not close until late morning and last for 4 days. Inflorescence a solitary. Rhizomes are branched or unbranched and erect.
In Malay Peninsula, the plant is used to promote vomiting to cure shivering fever that are caused by malaria. The plant is especially
It is commonly found around the garden, paddy fields, along roadsides, disturbed areas and on shallow drains. It prefers wet clay loamy soil under full sunlight.
Seeds and rhizome division.
Distributed in East
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