Grow your own Red Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) from open-pollinated seeds — one of the world's most spectacular and visually stunning aquatic flowering plants. This magnificent water plant produces large vivid crimson-red blooms rising gracefully above broad blue-green circular leaves on the water surface, creating a breathtaking ornamental pond display. Flowers are followed by attractive decorative seed pods widely used in floral arrangements. Ideal for garden ponds, water bowls, ornamental water features, and large containers. A deeply rewarding and long-lived aquatic flowering plant.