Beyond just aesthetics, the American lotus is popular with pollinators and aquatic wildlife, adding shade and shelter for frogs while also providing nectar for local bees and butt ...

Jahnavi Harrison explains how the lotus is a plant that, for those educated in ... the mud and murk from which it grows. Though its roots are in the mud, the flower sits atop the water, clean ...

I remember a song by Futen no Tora-san, the beloved protagonist of the “Tora-san” movie series: “Anyone who can grow roots even after falling into a sewer will someday blossom into a lotus ...