They all had their leaves, unlike the taller ... always occurs in sexually immature parts of the tree, parts that haven’t yet formed flowers. Trees exhibit marcescence when young, but lose ...
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...