What is anemone flower? How to distinguish lotus and anemone flower very easily

Lotus and anemone flower have very similar characteristics. However, each flower will have different uses and prices. So, to avoid confusion between these two flowers, let’s follow the article below to know how to distinguish lotus and anemone flower!

What is anemone flower?

Anemone flower is a flower called “anemone lotus”.

Anemone flower is a flower that is similar to the lotus flower and it is also known as “kneeling lotus”. Anemone flowers are often grown mainly for their seeds.

How to distinguish lotus and anemone flower very easily

How to distinguish by external appearance

Color

The lotus flower has a light pink color and the anemone flower has a darker color , some of the outer petals are usually slightly darker or sometimes there are white anemone species .

Shape

The lotus flower has a plump shape in the body, rounded in the direction from bottom to top. The anemone flower has a more elongated shape and tends to taper towards the bud.

And a small tip when buying, you just need to point the bouquet to the ground and gently shake the bouquet. If the petals don’t fall off, it’s a lotus, and if the petals fall off a lot, it’s a kneeling lotus.

Distinguished by appearance

Trunk

The stem is also a feature that helps you easily distinguish these two flowers. When you touch the trunk, the trunk is large, there are many thorns, then this is definitely an anemone flower . As for the lotus, the stem is usually slender, small and less thorny.

Distinguishing through the trunk

Leaf

Lotus leaves usually have less hair, the hair is also smoother and does not cause itching like anemone leaf. Therefore, lotus leaves are often used to make spinach, marinate tea, and add flavor to dishes.

Lotus seeds and anemone seeds

Lotus seeds are ingredients used a lot in processing. Lotus seeds have a greasy, fatty, fleshy and cool taste. Lotus heart has a bitter and acrid taste. But after a while, you will feel the sweet aftertaste in the throat. When enjoying both the seeds and the heart of the lotus, you will only feel the slightly sweet taste of sugar.

Differentiate by seeds

But for anemone seeds, sweet anemone seeds like main noodles , if you are not used to it for the first time, you will have a feeling of nausea and discomfort, the mind is quite acrid and there is no sweet aftertaste like lotus seeds.

How to distinguish through the shape inside the petals

flowering

When the lotus flower blooms, the petals form many layers, each layer of the lotus covering the calyx. The closer to the pistil, the smaller the petals will be . As for the anemone flower, usually the lotus is grown for the purpose of getting seeds, so the flower rarely blooms. If you buy flowers in a vase, the flowers will quickly wither and not bloom. Sometimes they bloom only once and then lose all their wings.

Distinguished by the shape inside the petals

The lotus flower has many layers of petals, so the flower bud will be thicker , when gently squeezing the flower bud, you can easily feel the thickness of the petals inside. As for the kneeling lotus, when you squeeze it lightly, you can see that the air comes out from the inside because the petals of the kneeling lotus are very thin and few.

Besides, when choosing to buy flowers, women can touch the flower buds to distinguish them . The lotus bud will be stronger because the inside of the lotus contains a lot of petals. As for the anemone flower, the flower bud will be pointed because the number of petals is less than that of a lotus.

Aroma

Lotus petals have a fragrance, anemone petals do not. The scent of lotus is cool and pleasant, as soon as the bud opens, it has a smell, from afar, you can also smell it . And the incense is strong, smoky, black, when the pistil comes out there is a smell, when you smell it closely, you can see the smell.

The scent of lotus is cool and pleasant

Price

Lotus flowers are often used to decorate homes or to make lotus tea, so the price is generally higher than that of anemone flowers. In the lotus season, it’s great if you’re in Hanoi; Because on this occasion, you can go to West Lake early in the morning to buy fresh lotus flowers because at that time, the growers have just picked flowers from the lagoon.

The price of each flower bouquet is about 50,000 to 60,000 VND/bundle, while anemone flowers usually only cost between 20,000 and 30,000 VND/bouquet .

So the above article has introduced to you how to distinguish lotus and anemone flower. Tnhelearning.edu.vn hopes that the above useful information will help you choose the right kind of flowers you need to buy!

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