The lotus plant can be grown in pots placed in the shallow part of a Koi pond. Protect the top of the pots with large stones to prevent the large Koi from digging on the soil and messing up the water. The plant has two types of leaves. Some that grows above the water surface (as shown in picture below) and some that floats on the water surface. The plant produces pink flowers on a long stock above the water .
The above picture was taken in Ocean Park, Hong Kong on a recent trip there.
Besides the Koi pond, the park has an interesting section showing many varieties of Chinese goldfishes and describes how the modern colourful goldfish varieties originated as a natural mutation of the Crucian Carp (Carassius Carassius), which was originally a drab olive colour. A natural mutation resulted in some orange-red colour goldfish. This led to selective breeding for over 1000 years to produce the various varieties of modern goldfishes.
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