Yes Missa it is. I collected the seeds from Greenbottom wildlife management area on the Ohio river in WV.
I have about a pint of them. I also have about a half pint of what I think from looking at it is nelumbo nucifera seed from a swamp in proctorville Ohio. Beautiful pink. They are super easy to sprout and grow, just file the outer coat, put them in water and there they go.
I could send you some, I just don't know when I'll be in town to mail them off. PM. me your address and i'll send them off as soon as I can.
Have you ever seen the proctorville lotus Tinkster? Right after you go across the cable suspended bridge from east Huntington to Proctorville If you take the exit and turn rt. at the first road you come to that goes down river under the bridge you were just on and look on the rt. as soon as you go under the bridge. There's very little or no open water just a swampy area where they grow a few hundred feet from the road.
You know way more than I do about lotus. Eventually I will grow some.
I want to try crossing the two I have. See what comes out of it.