Nymphaea lotus Coptic flag. Claire Waight Keller included the flower to represent Malawi in Meghan Markle's wedding veil, which included the distinctive flora of each Commonwealth country. In some parts of Africa the rhizomes and tubers are eaten for the starch they contain either boiled, roasted or ground to a flour after drying. The young fruits are sometimes consumed as a salad. The seeds are turned into a meal. The tubers or the seeds are used as a famine food in India. The ancient Egyptians cultivated the white lotus in ponds and marshes. This flower often appears in ancient Egyptian decorations. They
Lotus Flower (song) acoustic guitar. The show was released free online in December 2010 as "Radiohead for Haiti". According to the "NME", "Lotus Flower" combines the electronic instrumentation of Radiohead's fourth album "Kid A" (2000) with the "sonic warmth" of their seventh album "In Rainbows "(2007)"." The song features Yorke's "Prince-like" falsetto over syncopated beats and a "propulsive" synthesised bass line. Though the main beat is in common time, the handclaps are in quintuple meter, creating a metric dissonance. "Lotus Flower" has a more traditional song structure than many songs on "The King of Limbs;" Luke Lewis of the "NME" described it as