Family Name: Nymphaeaceae
Botanical Name(s): Nymphaea Lotus, Nymphaea Nouchali
Popular Name(s): Wild Pond Lily, White Water Lily, Sweet-Scented Pond Lily, Sweet Scented Water Lily, Toad Lily, Pond Lily, Water Lily, Cow Cabbage, Sweet Water Lily, Water Cabbage.
Parts Used: Flowers, Roots, Leaves, Stem
Habitat: Through out warmer parts of India, in tanks, ponds and ditches
Description: A beautiful and very varied species with leaves of green to red-brown and varying numbers of purple spots. Before forming floating leaves Nymphaea lotus (zenkeri) forms many underwater leaves.
Uses: The seeds are sweet, cooling, constipating, aphrodisiac, stomachic and restorative. It has found uses both as a culinary delight and starchy food staple as well as being used internally as a treatment for gastrointestinal disorders and jaundice.