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 ...

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 ...

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 ...