“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

While often called water lilies, they are not. Lotus (Nelumbo spp.) leaves and flowers are emergent or rise above the water's ...

Most people find blue lotus flower on the Internet in the form of flower extracts, resins, dried leaves, oils, powders, and ...

The lotus is Vietnam's national flower and a plant that's grown across ... and need to be fed almost 24 hours a day with mulberry leaves. The caterpillars delicately spin threads to create their ...

Copying some of the clever adaptations of plants and animals to solve technical problems; waterproof lotus leaves and grass ... from octopus suckers. Lotus Flower:© Agnese Abrusci, all other ...