Renkon Beige

Nelumbo nucifera

Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Padma or Kamala, sacred lotus, pink lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is sometimes colloquially called water lily, though this more often refers to members of the family Nymphaeaceae. The lotus belongs in the order Proteales.

Beige

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.

beige

Noun

1. A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Adjective

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.