The blossoms are of two sorts, male and female. The fruit, which is grown from the female blossom, breaks in large clusters, each fruit achieving the size of an egg of a goose, although the nut inside the chewy external gasbag is not much wide than a large almond. The look of the nut is specially sweet, resembling our liver bread. It was eaten both in a ripe and unripe conditionin the latter it has about the texture of cartilage; in the former it is harder, and has been equated to the pabulum portion of the cocoanut.
Lotus Flower in Ancient Egypt
Papyrus Flower in Ancient Egypt
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Lotus Flower in Ancient Egypt
Papyrus Flower in Ancient Egypt