Reel Mckoi wrote:
> > wrote in message
> > http://www.thailandlife.com/lotus_flower.htm
> ===================================
> This is a picture of a water lily. :-) It looks like a tropical variety.
> Lotus grow with their leaves way up out of the water.

Asian languages are not very precise in labeling plants. In Chinese,
lotus is "leen", waterlily is "sui leen", meaning "the sleeping lotus",
refering to the habit of the flowers and leaves sleeping on the water,
versus the erect habit of the lotus. And I thought "hoh" means
waterlily, but then found out it refers to the lotus, and was
originally the name for their leaves specifically.