This
is the first installment of a two-part series of this topic.
Wild
bird with lotus flower installment will be second time.
The ｌotus which flowering time in Japan is from June to August,is said to
be an aquatic plant native to India and is the national flower of Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka.
However, this lotus which I install this time is special one, the name of original
of this lotus is called Oogahasu , Kodaihasu in usual.
Footnote: about Oogahasu
One seed of the lotus was found a
school girl of Hanazono, Chiba Junior High School on March 30, 1951 by the peat
layer of 6m below ground, and two seeds were excavated on April 6.
Ichiro Oga who was the authority of
the lotus performed real growth upbringing of these lotus seeds in botanists,
and only one of three made a flower of the pinkness bloom in those days on
growth, July 18, 1952.
This news was reported outside the
country and was placed in the November 3, 1952 issue for Life Magazine weekly
publication in the United States. And this lotus was measured in generation measurement
of University of Chicago with before 2000.
In
addition, lotus roots which is called RENKON of the edible lotus are eaten well
in Japan.
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