FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
NELUMBIUM LUTEUM Nymphaeaceae, AMERICAN WATER-LOTUS, WATER CHINQUEPIN, YELLOW NELUMBO
Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]
is a plant of North America and West Indies. The seeds are very agreeable to eat and are eagerly sought for by children and Indians. The long and thick, creeping roots, says Rafinesque, aare acrimonious when fresh but are easily deprived of their dangerous juice by washings and are then an agreeable food to the Indians.
