Another photo from my archives of a Sacred Lotus seedpod, taken at the Calgary Zoo, on 23 August 2011.

"The pods/seed heads contain the Lotus seeds within little circular chambers on the flat surface of the top of the pod. These circles appeared to cradle the seeds, which are round, within the pod until fully ripe. Both the chamber of each seed and the seed itself got larger and larger until the pod bent over to finally release the seeds into the water."

www.flowersociety.org/lotus-plant-study.htm