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) Best Music Video at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. On tour with his band Atoms for Peace, singer Thom Yorke debuted a solo version of "Lotus Flower" at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on 2 October 2009. Like the rest of "The King of Limbs", the song was possibly recorded in the house of actress Drew Barrymore, who is thanked in the album's liner notes. On 24 January 2010, Radiohead suspended recording to perform at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood, to raise funds for Oxfam responding to the 2010 Haiti earthquake; at the show, Yorke performed "Lotus Flower" alone on