Taking into consideration ‘Nelum’ Englishmen calls it Lotus - famous water flowers which blossoms in Sri Lanka. This is a beautiful pink coloured flower, which slowly petals out to the sun light which has a mild perfumery scent. There are some Lotus flowers can see in White color. It has many petals. From flower to flower the number of petals changes. Ancient poets call it a hundred pealed flower. It is a large flower.

Sri Lanka’s national flower is “ Manel”. This flower can see in deferent colours. But the correct National Flower is in sky blue colour. This flower is
another beauty which dominates the Sri Lankan waters. This flower grows in the
shallow water. Most people calls this as blue water lily. This blooms from the
dawn till evening. The colour of the flower is blue and occasionally pinkish
and purple. For villagers stem and seeds are a curry for
their daily meal.
The
other flower is “OLu” . Its in white colour. This blooms in
around 10-11 the night and fades away by
11.00 a.m. in the morning, it emanates a sweet fragrance. In the
middle of the flower the seeds are collected by villages and they boil them as
rice. There is medicinal value in this flower. The boiled seeds are very
cooling to the body.

