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  2. Saussurea laniceps - Wikipedia

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    Saussurea laniceps (common name cotton-headed snow lotus, simplified Chinese: 绵头雪兔子; traditional Chinese: 綿頭雪兔子; lit. 'cotton head(ed) snow rabbit') is a rare snow lotus found only in the Himalayas including Nepal southwest China (in Sikkim in India and in Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan in China).

  3. Saussurea - Wikipedia

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    Snow lotus tubers selling in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Costi amari radix or costus root was an important item of Roman trade with India, and is believed to have been the dried root of Saussurea lappa. [3] Several varieties of snow lotus are used in traditional Tibetan medicine. Saussurea lappa is used a component of the traditional Tibetan medicine ...

  4. Lotus-eaters - Wikipedia

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    Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, lotophages or the lotus-eaters (Ancient Greek: λωτοφάγοι, romanized: lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree off coastal Tunisia (Island of Djerba), [1] [2] a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.

  5. Lotus - Wikipedia

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    Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: Lotus, a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae; Lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also known as Indian or sacred lotus; Lotus tree, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology

  6. Sealed cave hiding centuries-old remains of humans and sea ...

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    Intact bones and skulls were found embedded in the cave floor, photos show. Archaeologists also found a virtual Noah’s Ark of deceased animals, which included the remains of dogs, deer, opossum ...

  7. AP PHOTOS: Lotus Lantern Festival draws thousands in ... - AOL

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    Holding umbrellas and pink paper lotus flowers, thousands of South Koreans joyously filled the wet streets of Seoul in an annual festival anticipating Buddha’s birthday the coming week. Despite ...

  8. Sacred lotus in religious art - Wikipedia

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    The boy Buddha appearing within a lotus. Crimson and gilded wood, Trần-Hồ dynasty, Vietnam, 14th–15th century. In the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Buddha compares himself to a lotus (padma in Sanskrit, in Pali, paduma), [3] saying that the lotus flower rises from the muddy water unstained, as he rises from this world, free from the defilements taught in the specific sutta.

  9. See photos of the real 1972 Andes plane crash that inspired ...

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    The cast and crew traveled to the Andes mountains to shoot the movie. Bayona told THR that his cast and crew traveled several times to the Andes to shoot the movie.