(1) The flower of summer was the lotus , autumn the chrysanthemum, winter the plum blossom, and spring the peony.

(2) Two Swords are crossed in inner and outer conflict today but the flowering lotus , a symbol of love, in the middle of the two swords brings peace and compromise.

(3) The stout tubers of the waterlily and the lotus are edible when properly prepared, and have been an important starch crop both in Asia and North America.

(4) The Asian sacred lotus represents the highest branch on the botanical family tree that shows heat generation.

(5) The starving men ate the fruit, but Ulysses quickly understood that the lotus fruit destroyed men's memories.

(6) Ganesh offers her one of his enchanted lotus flowers so that she might visit Buddha in the sky.

(7) The lotus flower symbolises the complete purification of the defilements of the body, speech and mind, and the full blossoming of wholesome deeds in blissful liberation.

(8) A male bee enticed by the fragrance of the lotus flew into it.

(9) In one popular depiction, he sits on a lotus flower between the Hindu gods Brahm and Indra and creates a vast number of lotuses all with himself seated in their centers.

(10) If your pond is at least three feet deep, you can experiment with wild rice, water lotus , and water lily.

(11) Wild rice could have been found in the deeper waters of the backwater sloughs along with white water lily, American lotus , arrowleaf, duckweeds, and pondweed.

(12) A myth of creation states that Buddha was born of a thousand-petalled gold lotus

(13) With a larger pond, you can have lilies or tiger lotus , maybe some taro or umbrella palm that will help shade the pond surface.

(14) Dotted across the ponds lotus flowers and water lilies are coming into bloom.

(15) The music is inspired by the Ancient Greek myth of island dwellers whose diet of fruit from the lotus tree makes them forget their past troubles.

(16) You see Thais offering white lotuses , waving incense and kneeling in quiet prayer at the various temples to the Enlightened One.

(17) If tourists visit the garden in summer, they will be astonished by the pleasing green and red of thickly dotted lotuses .

(18) Many indigenous fish species in the lake, such as catfish, locally known as keting, melem and belida disappeared when people started taking the lotuses from the lake.

(19) The pond is full of lotuses , with their red, blue, green, white and yellow flowers emitting rays of light of the same colors.

(20) Red lotuses floated on the surface of the water.