"Tippi" > wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Tippi. My wife told me they call them 'bua', which means lotus. We
do eat all parts of them, including the roots and the seeds. The leaves get
boiled and are eaten with hot sauce (nam prik), like almost everything!

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