荷花,为多年生水生植物,它名号多多:莲花、芙蕖、水芝、泽芝、水华、菡萏、水旦、草芙蓉、水芙蓉……等等。花单生于花梗顶端,高托水面之上,有单瓣、复瓣、重瓣花型;单花居多,偶见并蒂莲。花色有白、粉、深红、淡紫色或间色等变化;雄蕊多数;雌蕊离生,埋藏于倒圆锥状海绵质花托 Lotus, a perennial aquatic plant, it has a lot of names: lotus, Fu Ye, Shui Zhi, Zezhi, bloom, emu, water, grass hibiscus, water hibiscus ...... and so on. Flowers solitary in the pedicel apricot, high water care surface, a single flap, double flap, double flap pattern; single flowers mostly, occasionally pedicle lotus. Variety of white, pink, dark red, lavender or interchromatic changes; most of the stamens; pistils, buried in the inverted conical sponge Torus