The Day of the Lotus might as well be called the Day of the Dead. Echo Park’s famous lotus beds are nothing more than a scattering of a few sickly, brownish pads floating in foul-smelling water, a ...

The Day of the Lotus might as well be called the Day of the Dead. Echo Park’s famous lotus beds are nothing more than a scattering of a few sickly, brownish pads floating in foul-smelling water, a ...

Jan Bairstow stands on the dock behind his house in northwestern Lake County and gazes reverently at the enormous bloom of American lotus plants floating upon Nippersink Lake. Thousands of green lily ...

With summer setting in, it’s nice to know that there are some plants that don’t requiring watering — at least from a hose. Lotus is an aquatic plant that thrives in hot weather, producing an abundance ...

The 31st annual Echo Park Lotus Festival is only two weeks away, but something--something central to the event--is missing: The Lotus. The Echo Park lotus plants are believed to be direct descendants ...

Jiang Yuewu talks about his crop of aquatic tubers known as lotus roots in the Huangpi district of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.AP Workers prepare to replant aquatic tubers known as lotus ...

This time-lapse takes on how a lotus/nelumbo nucifera seed sprouting, rooting, and growing into plants. A small hole was ...

HARTFORD – At the right time of year and the right time of day, Ten Mile Creek Nursery is filled with blooming lotus plants. Roots planted in mud, the leaves float on the water of pots and ponds ...