Lotus varieties

There are many cultivated varieties of lotus, which can be divided into three systems according to different uses: lotus root, lotus seed and Hualien. According to the classification standard of China Lotus Variety Atlas, it is divided into 3 rows, 50 groups, 23 categories and 28 groups. Namely:

● China Lotus System

First, large and medium-sized flowers:

A. single valve: 1. Single red lotus group 2. Single pink lotus group 3. Single-petalled white lotus group

B. compound valves: 4. Compound valve powder lotus group

C. double petals: 5. Double red lotus group 6. Double pink lotus group 7. Double white lotus group 8. Shuangjin group.

D. heavy platform category: 9. Hongtailian Formation

E. thousand petals: 10. Sect. Thousand petals.

Two. Floret:

F. single valve type: 1 1. Single red bowl lotus group 12. Single pink bowl lotus group 13. Single-petaled white bowl lotus group.

G. compound valve: 14. Lotus group with compound petals in red bowl 15. Lotus group with compound petals in pink bowl 16. Compound white bowl lotus group.

H. double flap: 17. Double red bowl lotus group 18. Double pink bowl lotus group 19. Double-petalled white bowl lotus group.

● American Lotus

Three. Large and medium-sized flowers:

Monopetaloid class: 20. Single-petalled coptis group.

C. Sino-American hybrid lotus lines

Four. Large and medium-sized flowers:

J. Single valve: 2 1. Hybrid single petal red lotus group 22. Hybrid single petal pink lotus group 23. Hybrid single petal Huang Lian group 24. Hybrid single petal multi-color lotus group.

K. compound valve: 25. Hybrid compound valve Bailian Group 26. Mixed compound valve.

Small flower group:

Length single valve type: 27. Hybrid single valve group.

Mi (abbreviation of meter)) Compound valve: 28. Hybrid compound petal white lotus group

There are many cultivated varieties of lotus, which can be divided into three systems according to different uses: lotus root, lotus seed and Hualien.