Lotus Tree

Near it is a small enclosure of low wooden railing, which contains some palm-trees, held sacred by the Moslims, because they are said to have been planted by Fatme, and another tree, of which the stem only now remains, and which I believe to have been a nebek, or lotus-tree. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The shorn tresses of the Vestal Virgins were hung on an ancient lotus-tree. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The lotus-eaters ate of the fruit of the lotus-tree and forgot their homes and friends. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1879)

"Hanút," i.e., leaves of the lotus-tree to be infused as a wash for the corpse; camphor used with cotton to close the mouth and other orifices; and, in the case of a wealthy man, rose-water, musk, ambergris, sandal-wood, and lignaloes for fumigation. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Fatme, and another tree, of which the stem only now remains, and which I believe to have been a nebek, or lotus-tree. ❋ John Lewis Burckhardt (1800)

"Have the doves that moan in the lotus-tree * Woke grief in thy heart and bred misery? ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The winds are lulled, and the snow falls incessant, covering the tops of the mountains, and the hills, and the plains where the lotus-tree grows, and the cultivated fields, and they are falling by the inlets and shores of the foaming sea, but are silently dissolved by the waves. " ❋ Henry David Thoreau (1839)