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 Bomb which appeared on his 2011 mixtape "O.E.M.O.". The music video shot in Atlanta, Georgia, was directed by Taj. The video depicts a scene from "Poetic Justice", where Wale is a mailman who is trying to charm the beauty salon owner played by Bre Scullark from "America's Next Top Model". The car depicted in the video is a Lotus Evora. "Lotus Flower Bomb" charted on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 on the week of October 18, 2011 at #87. The song has peaked at #38 on the Hot 100, making it Wale's biggest hit as a lead artist, until his 2013