If you grew up in the '80s or '90s, you may remember cookie-sized, woody lotus flower seed pods intermingled with potpourri in grandparents' homes. But beyond the dish of dried flowers, the pods ...

Perhaps, then, it’s not surprising that a plant resembling the blue lotus is now marketed online as a soothing flower, one that can be smoked in a vape or infused in tea. There’s just one problem, ...

The lotus flower, a great seductress who lives but ... as the artist David Hammons did to create his Pan-African flag, or just hanging it upside down in a bipartisan gesture of protest.