Richard

The previous curator told me their lotus fruits were an inch or so long. She wasn't to impressed with the fruit either. They are propagating them for root stocks. However, I looked up the locations the seeds of their lotus were collected from. My contact in northwest India tells me that they are popular in the foothill region stretching from there westward through northern Iran. The climate zone there is zone 10 albeit at 5,000 feet elevation. So I chose cultivars from that region
D56.2 (female)
D56.4 (male)
D67.2 (female)

In the next year or so they will also be able to release wood grown from the seeds of two lotus trees in the great valley of the Caucasus mountains. The cultivars there are famous in the sense that it is the location of the lotus-eaters in the Odyssey story recorded by Homer.

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