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
A Flower in a Sinful Sea addition the word sounds similar to "hua" (T: 華, S: 华, P: "huá", W: "hua"), meaning China. The title has also been translated as "Flower in a Sea of Sin", "Flower in the Sea of Retribution", "Flower in the World of Retribution", "Flower in a Sea of Karma", "Flower in the Sea of Evil" or "A Flower in an Ocean of Sin". In the earlier versions of the novel by Jin Tianhe, Sai Jinhua, a courtesan, travels to the west with her husband, a scholar. They meet Russian anarchists and the novel describes the history of the Russian anarchist movement.