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Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to regulate the temperature of its flowers to within a narrow range just as humans and other warmblooded animals do.
Dr. Roger S. Seymour and Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel, physiologists at the University of Adelaide in Australia, found that lotus flowers blooming in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens maintained a temperature of, even when the air temperature dropped to.
They suspect the flowers may be doing this to attract coldblooded insect pollinators.
The study, published in the journal Nature, is the latest discovery in the esoteric field of thermoregulation, heat-producing, plants.
Two other species known to be able to regulate their temperature include Symplocarpus foetidus and Philodendron selloum.
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