Blue lotus flower (Nymphaea caerulea) is a psychoactive plant, also known as blue Egyptian lotus, blue water lily, and sacred blue lily. It’s been used in traditional medicine for thousands of ...

Lotus flowers (Nelumbo nucifera) are aquatic plants that commonly are confused with water lilies. Unlike lilies, which ...

Blooming lotus flowers and water lilies are drawing crowds of visitors to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Northeast Washington, D.C. The annual Lotus and Water Lily Festival runs through Saturday ...

Blue lotus flower, or Nymphea caerulea, is an Egyptian water lily believed to be used in ancient healing and shamanistic rituals. Today, people use it to promote sleep, reduce anxiety, improve ...

leading McEvoy to believe that flowers sold online are actually a visually striking, but otherwise common, non-psychoactive water lily. “I said, ‘I knew it!'” McEvoy recalled. An online search for the ...

Longwood’s renowned collection of more than 130 varieties of water lilies return to the public eye in the newly-reopened ...

it submerges every night into river water and miraculously re-blooms the next morning, sparklingly clean. As a result, this has led the lotus to have associations as the flower with rebirth and ...

Indeed, the consonants of the word have been found in Egyptian inscriptions where they denote the lotus ... the Huleh Lily, and a number of other flowers have also been named as meeting the ...

If you happen to be a July baby, you can claim two of the most vivid blooms as your birth flower: the larkspur (also known as the delphinium) and the water lily. From deep blues and purples to ...

"Is the blue water lily a lost drug plant once beloved by ... du jour may have been a potion of oil and wine steeped with lotus flowers. Today, the promises of what's marketed online as a miracle ...