The lotus can generate heat and regulate its temperature like birds, mammals: Study

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"Our work focuses on its incredible ability to generate heat so that it can keep a constant temperature of around 32-34 degrees over a 2-3 day period, while the environmental temperature varies by up to 30 degrees - behaving like a warm-blooded animal." Watling says the heat generated and the aromas released are particularly attractive to pollinating insects. "We've found the biochemical pathway the lotus uses for this heat regulation. The plant can switch this pathway on or off, depending on whether it needs more or less heat," she says. "We've discovered that this pathway depends on a single protein and we now have information about the genes that code for that protein, adding to our knowledge about the mechanisms of lotus thermo-regulation. Other flowering plants also have this metabolic pathway, but few use it to the same amazing extent as the lotus," added Watling.