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Hibiscus
Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are renowned for their large, showy flowers and those species are commonly known simply as "hibiscus", or less widely known as rose mallow. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as well as woody shrubs and small trees.
Nefertem
Nefertem (; possibly "beautiful one who closes" or "one who does not close"; also spelled Nefertum or Nefer-temu) was, in Egyptian mythology, originally a lotus flower at the creation of the world, who had arisen from the primal waters.
Nefertem represented both the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower, having arisen from the primal waters within an Egyptian blue water-lily, Nymphaea caerulea. Some of the titles of Nefertem were "He Who is Beautiful" and "Water-Lily of the Sun", and a version of the Book of the Dead says:
Lotus Sutra
Mahayana sutra
Fern flower
Mythical flower blooming only on the night before Ivan Kupala or Midsummer
The Secret of the Golden Flower
classic Taoist text
Flower Sermon
story of the origin of Zen Buddhism
lotus throne
In Asian art a lotus throne is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for a figure
Padma
lotus attribute of Vishnu
Vaijayanti
thumb|The Vaijayanti, Karnataka