Euryale ferox (common names prickly waterlily, fox nut, foxnut, gorgon nut or makhana) is the only extant species in the genus Euryale. It is a flowering plant classified in the water lily family, Nymphaeaceae, although it is occasionally regarded as a distinct family, Euryalaceae. Unlike other water lilies, the pollen grains of Euryale have three nuclei.
The name Euryale comes from the mythical Greek Gorgon by the same name.
Makhana or Euryale is a perennial plant native to eastern Asia and southern ...