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

Icons of beauty, providers of sustenance, even symbols of divinity — blossoming plants have assumed a deep significance to ...

“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 ...

For Hindus, the beautiful and arresting lotus flower represents life, fertility and (as with Buddhists) purity – standing aloof above the mud and murk from which it grows. Though its roots are ...

For instance, we don't know if the oldest flowers were unisexual or bisexual, or if they were pollinated by wind or insects." Science Photo Library Left: Spiral arrangement of petals in a lotus ...

And with that he whispered into her ear and turned her into a beautiful lotus flower that drifted away from the palace. That day a fisherman came upon a magnificent and most unusual flower ...

Narrator: Each thread of lotus silk starts with the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus is Vietnam's national flower and a plant that's grown across the country. While this fabric has been made ...

An early Lotus Seven. Thesupermat [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. One name from that period which embodies both Formula One and kit cars is Lotus. Its founder, [Colin Chapman], produced a ...

Is there a more breathtaking oasis than the Blue Lotus Water Garden? At more than 50,000 square metres in size and covered by a multitude of water lilies and lotus flowers that are spread across ...