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

And while the rose, poppy, and peace lily are all three historically significant flowers, there is no bloom with as deep a ...

“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 ...

Shenzhen Lotus Water Culture Base combines landscape design ... within a series of design elements that pay heed to the lotus flower emblematic of the park. This project has been longlisted ...

Though its roots are in the mud, the flower sits atop the water, clean and white. The story goes that the lotus arose from the navel of God Vishnu, with Brahma sitting at the centre of the flower.

At more than 50,000 square metres in size and covered by a multitude of water lilies and lotus flowers that are spread across dozens of picturesque ponds and two lakes, we don't think so.

There he saw a lovely girl standing near the water. "Who are you?" he gasped. Shimchong blushed. "My name is Shimchong," she said, "I am the lotus flower you love." The emperor at once understood ...