The article focuses on lotus or Nelumbo nucifera, India's national flower and considered a sacred plant deeply embedded in rituals of Hindu mythology. It grows in perennial water bodies and utilized and cultivated for sacred parts in various parts of west Bengal and while its seeds and rhizomes are consumed in other parts of India. Wild populations of lotus are found in almost all Indian districts and extensively cultivated in several parts of Medinipur district specifically in Bhogpur.