What group of plants does the lotus belong to? Lotus is the sacred flower of the East. Nut-bearing lotus: description
Lotus report grade 2 will briefly talk about this perennial plant. Also, the report on the lotus can be used during preparation for the lesson.
Lotus Message
This flower is admired and admired; it has long been a symbol of the gods. Did you guess it? This is a perennial, beautiful plant - lotus. It belongs to the genus of dicotyledons. By the way, the lotus is the only representative of its family. The plant is pink or yellow, although red, blue and white water lilies are often classified as lotuses.
Where does the lotus grow?
These amazing plants grow exclusively in water: in muddy channels, river deltas, and creeks. Less commonly, they can be found high in the mountains at an altitude of 1.5 km. Lotuses are heat-loving representatives of the flora, so they do not grow everywhere. Thus, the yellow lotus is found in the reservoirs of Jamaica, Hawaii, Central and South America. The pink flower grows in Japan, Asia, India, and Australia. Also, lotuses were chosen by the Far East, Kuban and the Volga delta. And on the Taman Peninsula there is a water garden of incredible beauty - the Lotus Valley. Flowers are listed in the Red Book.
What does a lotus look like?
A blooming lotus looks like this: bright green leaves float on the surface of the water, and among them there is a large flower (its diameter is 30 cm), always turned towards the sunny side. The lotus gives off a not strong but pleasant smell. The flower has a yellow corolla, which is surrounded by petals of either a soft pink or yellow hue. Near the base, the tone of the petals is richer than at the edges. The lotus rhizome is long and thick. This is due to the fact that the plant needs to reach the bottom of the reservoir and extract nutrients from there.
The leaves and petals are covered with a dense waxy coating and under sunlight they shimmer like mother of pearl. Water does not stay on them. Lotus seeds resemble nuts. They are dark in color and have a hard skin with a small hole for the embryo.
Meanings of lotus in human life
Lotus plays an important role in human life. In traditional Tibetan, Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Arabic medicine, medicines are made from plant parts (seeds, embryos, receptacle, petals, stamens, leaves, roots, pistils).
This plant is also a valuable dietary and food product. The fruits and roots are eaten. In China, Japan and India, starch, flour, sugar and even butter are made from seeds and rhizomes.
It is believed that the lotus can cleanse the space around itself from negative vibrations. Therefore, the plant can be grown at home.
Lotus: interesting facts
- Lotus seeds that were more than 1000 years old were once discovered in Chinese peat bogs. When they were planted, after a while the flower sprouted and bloomed.
- In Asian countries, lotus is grown as a vegetable.
- In some countries, the leaves of the plant are used instead of asparagus, and marmalade is made from the seeds.
- The lotus is a symbol of purity. It is used in many spiritual practices, as the plant is believed to cleanse a person's aura and have a beneficial effect on their health.
- Every evening the lotus closes the flower and hides under the water to appear again in the morning. The most interesting thing is that the flower remains dry when leaving the water.
We hope that the report on the lotus helped you prepare for the lesson, and you learned a lot of useful information about this amazing plant that grows in water. And you can leave your short story about the lotus for children using the comment form below.
Family: lotus (Nelumbonaceae).
Homeland: North Africa, South Asia.
Form: herbaceous plant.
Description
Lotus is a herbaceous perennial that lives in an aquatic environment. The plant has a thick rhizome lying in the soil at the bottom of the reservoir, emergent leaves and flowers on long petioles. Large, up to 70 cm in diameter, funnel-shaped lotus leaves are covered with a waxy coating, so they do not get wet. They rise above the water, which distinguishes them from nymphs and water lilies. Large, up to 30 cm in diameter, single multi-petaled lotus flowers, somewhat raised above the water surface due to the high peduncle, can be colored pink, yellow, or cream. A blooming lotus changes its location following the movement of the sun. The lotus fruit is a cone-shaped capsule with numerous seeds and nuts.
In the cultures of India, Egypt, China, Sri Lanka and some other countries, the lotus is considered a sacred plant.
The lotus family has only two species:
(N. nucifera) is a relict representative of the lotus family. Spectacular large flowers, bright pink at the beginning of flowering, gradually change color to white, and have a subtle pleasant aroma. The seed method of propagation of this species is not effective; plants are propagated by rhizomes.
or American lotus
(N. lutea) is distributed throughout the North American and South American continents. The flower is quite large, fragrant, and can be painted snow-white or cream.
Growing conditions
The optimal place for planting a lotus is a pond with standing or slowly flowing water measuring at least 3x3 meters and a depth of about one meter (at least 70 cm), partially or completely shaded by a spreading tree. The bottom of the pond is laid out with small pebbles, on top of which a layer of loamy soil is poured.
Application
Lotuses are decorative throughout the spring-summer season; they bloom from mid-July to August. Lotuses are used for landscaping garden ponds, or grown as a container plant in decorative containers. Exotic and exquisite lotuses will fit perfectly into almost any garden style, but these wonderful aquatic plants are especially appropriate in and gardens.
The rhizomes and seeds of the lotus are eaten and also used in cosmetology and folk medicine.
Care
A pond with lotuses must be regularly cleaned of duckweed. Lotuses should not be allowed to grow near the shore - there should be a strip of clean water between the shoreline and the group of plants. This is necessary so that the dying parts of the lotus do not increase the layer of silt. In spring, it makes sense to thin out too dense lotus thickets. During drought, water should be added to the pond, maintaining it at an optimal level for the plants. Lotuses do not need feeding.
A lotus wintering in a pond with a non-freezing bottom does not need to be prepared for the cold season. In a shallow pond, the plant can be left for the winter, having first drained the water from the pond and covered the rhizomes with fallen leaves, polystyrene foam, sawdust, and moss. Another way to overwinter lotus is in containers. Lotus rhizomes are moved into a container along with bottom soil. The substrate should be lightly covered with water. Until spring, the containers are kept in a cool place, making sure that the lotuses do not begin to grow prematurely.
Reproduction
Lotus is propagated by seeds and rhizomes. The advantages of the first method are relative simplicity and better adaptation of plants to their environment; the second method is quite labor-intensive, but it allows you to see the lotus bloom 1-3 years earlier than with the seed method.
When growing lotus from seeds, you should take lotus nuts collected from late August to October. Seeds are germinated in warm water at a temperature of +18...+25C⁰. The sprouted seeds are moved into a container filled with 15-20 cm of water. A small layer of garden soil mixed with clay is placed at the bottom of the container. As the lotuses grow, water is added to the vessel. Young plants are moved into the pond only when spring frosts are guaranteed to end. When growing in containers and planting in a pond, it is strictly unacceptable to drown lotus leaves - this is detrimental to the plants. Lotuses grown from seeds bloom in the 5-6th year of life.
The elongated, banana-like rhizomes of the lotus are harvested for planting in the same season as the seeds. This is done exclusively by hand and with great care - care must be taken not to damage the small fibrous roots. Rhizomes are also planted by hand. To do this, oblong holes are made in the bottom soil and “bananas” are placed in them. These processes are labor-intensive in themselves, but this is the only way, if the maintenance conditions are met, to achieve rapid flowering of lotuses. If adult rhizomes (from 8 years of age) are used for transplantation, then the first lotus flowers can be seen within 1-2 years.
Diseases and pests
Lotus is a very disease resistant plant. Its main natural enemy is aphids, which attack unopened lotus buds. You can get rid of it by carefully using insecticides, or simply washing aphids off the plants in the morning with a stream of water from a hose. Occasionally, lotus can be damaged by caterpillars. To combat them, special preparations can also be used, but only in limited doses - their use should not disturb the pond ecosystem.
Popular lotus varieties:
- "Alba Grandiflora"– large white flowers;
- "Lily Pons"– cup-shaped flowers of salmon or pinkish color;
- "Kermesina"– red double flowers;
- "Mrs Perry D. Slocum"– large pink flowers that acquire a creamy hue over time;
- "Moto Nerd"– container variety with deep crimson flowers.
For more than three thousand years, the lotus has been a symbol of wisdom, happiness and eternal life.
The reason for this was the natural feature of the lotus - to always turn towards the sun. Thanks to this feature, the Egyptians considered this plant sacred.
Nefertiti wore a lotus flower. The lotus symbolized Upper Egypt and adorned the country's coat of arms. The Greeks believed that lotus flowers have the rare gift of expelling grief, sadness, and resentment from the soul.
General characteristics of lotus
The lotus family (Nelumbonaceae), isolated from the nymphaeaceae family, is represented by only one genus - lotus (Nelumbo) and two species - nut lotus (N. nucifera) and yellow lotus (N. lutea).
The types differ mainly in the color of the flowers: the nut lotus has pale pink flowers, the yellow lotus has cream or yellow flowers; as well as the region of distribution: the first is found in Eurasia and Australia, the second in the New World.
The homeland of the lotus was undoubtedly located in the tropical climate zone. The northern border of lotus growth coincides with the border of grape cultivation (the lower temperature limit is minus 15°C).
Lotus naturally grows in swampy lakes and slow-flowing rivers. Its creeping rhizomes are immersed in the sandy muddy bottom. When water bodies become shallow, the lotus develops normally on land for some time, but dies after a few years - apparently when the supply of nutrients in the rhizomes is depleted.
The rhizomes are powerful, up to 5 cm in diameter, highly branched: numerous roots radiate from clearly visible nodes in bunches. Substances that will nourish the plant throughout the winter are deposited in the rhizome.
By autumn, tuberous thickenings form on it. In spring, leaves grow from the buds at each node, and leaves and flowers grow from large buds.
Lotus leaves are of two types. Some - underwater sessile scale-like - tightly cover young buds and growth points of the rhizome. Others - surface floating or aerial - rise high above the water on flexible petioles. The floating leaves are flat, rounded-shield-shaped, and the aerial leaves are funnel-shaped.
Lotus leaves are not wetted: the water falling on them, like mercury, collects in large drops and slides down the groove; a sheet dipped in water is covered with a silvery airy film. This is explained by a strong waxy coating on the leaves. In addition, their tissues have air cavities.
The average height of the plant is about 1.5 m. Lotus flowers are up to 30 cm in diameter, with delicately colored petals, with a weak but refined aroma with notes of cinnamon.
There are only two sepals, and 20–30 petals; the latter, as well as numerous large stamens, are arranged spirally.
A lotus flower lives from four to five days, then fades, and lotus fruits appear - nuts that remain viable for a long time.
However, under natural conditions, the lotus reproduces mainly by branching the rhizome. Sometimes plants of the same thicket have a common, unusually extended system of rhizomes.
Tasty and healthy
Lotus seeds, leaves and rhizomes are suitable for food.
From rhizomes get flour, starch, butter. Lotus rhizomes are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C, and contain free amino acids, potassium salts, phosphorus, copper, and manganese. They are prepared like other root vegetables, such as Jerusalem artichoke.
Young leaves eaten like asparagus. Nuts They click like seeds. The leaves are used to wrap food for heat treatment or storage.
Stamens used for herbal teas and black tea flavoring.
In folk medicine, all parts of the lotus plant are used to treat diseases of the nervous and cardiovascular systems, for headaches and as a tonic.
Fragrant oil is obtained from flowers and fruits - an anti-inflammatory and anti-allergenic agent.
Lotus breeding
The selection of lotus flowers has reached an unprecedented level: there are varieties from snow-white to intense purple, with many shades. Dense lotuses and flowers with corrugated petals have already appeared.
Many varieties are created based on hybrids of the nut lotus and the yellow lotus. The varieties are propagated by dividing the rhizomes (with seed propagation, the offspring turn out to be heterogeneous).
In artificial reservoirs for lotus, soil is prepared from silt, sand, a small amount of clay and gravel. The water should be clean and low flowing. It should be taken into account that lotuses grow quickly and can choke out other pond plants.
Growing from seeds
Lotuses grown from seeds bloom in the 3rd–5th year. Before germination, the seeds are cut down (carefully so as not to damage the embryo), placed in a jar of warm water, which is placed on a sunny windowsill.
After a few days, the shell bursts, small leaves appear, and after another two to three weeks roots appear.
Seedlings are planted either directly into a pond (if the water is warm enough), or in pots that are placed in vessels with water.
As the lotuses grow, add water or transplant the plants into new containers: the leaves should float on the surface.
Vegetative propagation
For vegetative propagation, it is better to first plant rhizome segments in a container for rooting. The buds should be level with the surface of the pound.
During the period of rooting and growth of rhizomes, it is recommended to feed lotuses with special fertilizers for aquatic plants.
In the temperate climate zone, water from reservoirs with lotuses is drained for the winter and the bottom is covered with a thick (at least 50 cm) layer of fallen leaves.
Sometimes lotuses are planted in containers, which are transferred to basements for the winter and stored in damp sand at a temperature of 5–10°C.
In winter gardens, lotus is grown in large aquariums, in which the layer of water above the ground surface should be at least 30 cm.
In our country, the lotus grows in the Volga delta, in the North Caucasus (at the mouth of the Kura River), in the Far East and in the Kuban estuaries on the eastern coast of the Sea of Azov.
In the Astrakhan region, before lotus thickets were declared protected, they were destroyed on the vine, fed to livestock and poultry. However, the lotus multiplies quickly, and now its area there reaches 1,500 hectares. It grows along the banks of numerous channels and lakes in the Volga delta, on the seaside.
In the Far East, the lotus is found in the Amur region, along the lower reaches of the Ussuri, on Lake Malaya Khanka. Here it has been preserved since the Tertiary period; at that time the climate was warmer, but the lotus adapted to local conditions and became winter-hardy.
Usually the bottom layer of silt, in which lotus rhizomes overwinter, does not freeze.
Lotuses settled in the Azov region and on the Taman Peninsula about 40 years ago. Initially, they were planted in a fresh lake near the Sadki farm (Primorsko-Akhtarsk region).
Attempts to plant lotuses in the Kuban estuaries have been made before. So, in 1938, hydrobiologist S.K. Troitsky grew lotus populations from Astrakhan seeds. But due to environmental disturbances in this region, they did not survive.
In the freshwater Akhtanizovsky estuary in the Krasnodar Territory, floating lotus leaves in shallow water reach 80 cm in diameter. - local landmark.
In the language of flowers, lotus means - happiness, health, long life, wisdom. It is customary to give a lotus only to well-known people as a sign of family and friendly feelings.
Why do people worship this plant both in ancient times and today? Maybe the reason is that its flowers are amazingly beautiful and always turned towards the sun? Or maybe it was that it gave people tasty food and a cure for many diseases. The lotus was known as a medicinal plant in China several thousand years before the new era. In traditional Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Tibetan medicine, all parts of the plant were used to prepare medicines - whole seeds or their large mealy germs, receptacle, petals, pedicels, stamens, pistils, leaves, roots and rhizomes.
Nowadays, various biologically active substances, mainly alkaloids and flavonoids, have been found in the plant. Lotus preparations are used as a tonic, cardiotonic, and general tonic. In addition, lotus is a valuable food and dietary plant. In the countries of Southeast Asia, it has long been used in food and is specially grown as a vegetable. The rhizomes are eaten raw, boiled, fried, and pickled for the winter. Soup is made from the roots, starch and oil are obtained. Young leaves are eaten like asparagus. The seeds are eaten raw and candied as a delicacy; pieces of rhizomes are also candied - a kind of “marmalade” is obtained. Flour is prepared from seeds and rhizomes. Even the stamens and stems are eaten.
Two types of lotuses grow on the globe: L. nucifera (Nelumbo nucifera), an inhabitant of the Old World, is a well-known aquatic plant. The border of its range in the north runs along the Amur River basin, and in the south it descends to the tropics of Northern Australia. The second species - L. yellow, or American (N. lutea) is common in the New World.
Lotus is an amphibious herbaceous perennial plant. The lotus stems, which have turned into a powerful thick rhizome, are immersed in underwater soil. Some leaves are underwater, scale-like, while others are above-water, floating or raised high above the water.
The flowers are large, up to 30 cm in diameter, with numerous pink or white petals; they rise high above the water on a straight peduncle. Just below the place where the flower is attached there is a so-called reaction zone, in which the lotus changes its position following the sun. The center of the flower consists of numerous bright yellow stamens and a wide ob-conical receptacle. The flowers have a weak but pleasant aroma. The fruit is a multi-nut, obverse-conical in shape - reminiscent of the bell of a garden watering can, with large nests, each of which contains one seed. They are dark brown, the size of a small acorn, and there are up to 30 of them in the fruit. In a dry place they remain viable for a very long time, sometimes for centuries.
There are cases where seeds stored in museum collections germinate 150 and even 200 years after collection.
The leaves and flowers are covered with a thin waxy coating. Under the rays of the sun they glow and shimmer like mother-of-pearl. Drops of water, like balls of mercury, roll over the leaves. On a hot sunny day, you can observe a very interesting phenomenon - a “living laboratory” in action - the “boiling” of water. In the recess of the leaf, air escaping from the holes of the petiole releases water in small splashes.
Exists legend, explaining the birth of this plant:
One day a beautiful fairy was walking along the river bank, and here a young fisherman saw her.
He called out to the beauty - and as soon as their eyes met, love settled in the hearts of the young people.
But the lovers were not destined to be together - the fairy’s father, the cunning and insidious Lord of the Rivers, found out about their dates. He had already had his eye on a groom for his daughter for a long time.
Knowing her rebellious nature, the Lord of the Rivers decided to use cunning to separate the lovers.
At night he took a gold ring from his sleeping daughter’s finger and threw it as far as he could. And the next day he called the lovers to his place and announced that he was ready to give his daughter as a wife to a mere mortal, since their feelings were so strong. But provided that the fisherman is able to find his betrothed’s ring, which she so carelessly dropped.
The lovers were saddened, but the old heron whispered to the river fairy that she saw something glittering in the lotus flower. The beauty was delighted and hurried to her beloved to tell him where to look for the ring.
But the insidious father got ahead of her and hid the ring inside a nut that grew in a flower on his orders. And to confuse the search, exactly the same nuts appeared in other colors, swaying on the surface of the water.
The fisherman failed to find his beloved's ring. They say that this ring is kept to this day in the middle of a beautiful flower, and whoever finds it will receive a beautiful river fairy as a wife, and as a dowry - power over all rivers and lakes.
In every culture lotus endowed with special properties and magical features. The species diversity of these properties depends on many qualities of the lotus and, of course, on the culture. Lotus flowers are characterized by several criteria, such as the number of petals, shape, size and color of the flower itself.
Lotus with five petals denotes the five stages of life that a person goes through: birth, education, marriage, rest from work and, finally, death.
Seven petal lotus is a symbol of the seven planets.
Lotus flower with eight petals symbolized in India as the Heart of Being. It is there that Brahma resides.
nine petal flower- designation of a person, and ten-petalled- God and the Universe.
In Medieval Europe, an ordinary lotus was a prototype of the sun, center and heart, and a multi-petalled lotus with a triangle in the center was a prototype of emptiness and the end.
As for man and the human body, the lotus can also symbolize a lot. This unusual and mysterious flower is a symbol of human reproduction and the unity of the masculine and feminine principles, as well as all opposites.
In Ancient Rome There was a legend that said that during the persecution by Priapus, the nymph Lotis turned into a lotus flower. Ovid's "Metamorphoses" tells the story of how Dryope, who picked a lotus, turned into a lotus tree.
Romans The lotus was considered the flower of Apollo.
Among the Greeks this flower was a romantic love bed for Zeus and Hera.
In Egypt this flower was associated with ideas about fertility and productive power, death and resurrection. He contacted the Nile and the Sun; and also served as a throne for the supreme deities and therefore often symbolized the highest power. The lotus became the emblem of Upper Egypt, while the papyrus became the emblem of Lower Egypt. Images of a closed and open flower bud formed the basis for two types of capitals of Egyptian columns, Egyptian blue lotus blooms during the day and closes at night, it has become a symbol of dawn, awakening from sleep; it was placed in tombs so that the dead would wake up in the next world. The white lotus is closed during the day and blooms only at night; it became a symbol of sleep. The Egyptians believed that the fruit of the white lotus brought oblivion and bliss. Subsequently, lotus symbolism spread from Egypt to Greece; for example, Homer reflected the story of lotus eaters, whose island Odysseus visited: having tasted the lotus, his companions wanted to stay on the island forever.
Besides all this, Lotus flowers are a symbol of the life path of man and nature. For example, in Tibet, the wheel of life is designed so that the past, present and future exist simultaneously, and the lotus, in turn, symbolized all three stages of existence: the bud is the past, the flower is the present, and the seeds are the future. A person has three worlds (material, spiritual and intellectual) in which he lives all his life, and the lotus exists in three elements. The three stages symbolized by the lotus, also exist in the form of a reflection of the gradual spiritual improvement of a person throughout his life. First it is ignorance, then an attempt to overcome it and, finally, an understanding acquired through life experience.
IN China The lotus was revered as a sacred plant even before the spread of Buddhism. The lotus was endowed with sacred meaning (as the personification of fertility and at the same time purity): incense was burned to the spirit of the lotus in order to drive out evil forces; in the west of the world, according to legend, the so-called lotus paradise-lotus lake was located. Each lotus growing on this lake corresponds to the soul of a deceased person. Depending on the virtue or sinfulness of a person’s earthly life, lotus flowers either bloom or wither.
Meaning of lotus flowers:
White Lotus was a symbol of sleep, since it was revealed only at night, symbolizing a state of spiritual perfection.
Blue lotus symbolized awakening from sleep and the beginning of a new day, therefore, in order for the deceased to wake up in another world, a blue lotus was placed in their coffin. The lotus was also used for burial by the Romans, Greeks and Christians. And among Christians it was also the “flower of Light”, which symbolized Trinity and Christ.
In Buddhism, a symbol of the victory of the spirit over the senses, a symbol of the wisdom of one who has knowledge.
Red lotus- symbolizes the original nature and purity of the heart. The red lotus is the lotus of love, compassion, the suffering of martyrs, passion and all other properties of the heart.
Pink lotus- the supreme lotus, always corresponds to the highest deities - is associated with the Buddha himself.
The lotus has often symbolized gods in different cultures. The ancient Egyptian Horus (the god of royalty, who was represented as the incarnation of the ancient Egyptian king) rose from the lotus, which meant the birth of the world from water and fire.
The Indian Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was depicted sitting on a lotus - a symbol of everything new, renewed and reborn. Guardian Vishnu - the Hindu Supreme God, the personification of the Absolute Truth - compares the lotus that grows from his navel with that arising from the central sun of the Universe.
In Buddhism, the lotus symbolizes the primordial waters, spiritual unfoldment, wisdom and nirvana. The Lotus is dedicated to Buddha, the “Pearl of the Lotus”, who emerged from the Lotus in the form of a flame. This is an image of purity and perfection: growing out of dirt, he remains pure - just like Buddha, born into the world. Buddha is considered the heart of the lotus, he sits on a throne in the form of a fully opened flower. In addition, in Buddhism, the appearance of the lotus is associated with the beginning of a new cosmic era. The full bloom of the lotus represents the wheel of the continuous cycle of existence and is a symbol of Kuan Yin, Maitreya Buddha and Amitabha. In the Buddhist paradise, as in the paradise of Vishnu, in ponds made of jewelry, “amazing lotuses of different colors bloom.”
In Taoism The lotus acts as an analogue of the world tree, connecting the three levels of the universe: it grows from silt, its stem is in water, and its flower is facing the sky. The lotus also symbolizes human evolution. It expresses the unity of yang and yin and as such is perceived as a symbol of Tao.
It is not without reason that in almost all traditions the lotus is a symbol of purity. He is able to cleanse the space around him from negative vibrations. The aura of this plant exudes such a powerful energy field that no evil can coexist next to it. The room where the lotus is located becomes sacred just from its presence, which is why the lotus is so often used to consecrate the altar.
The lotus is often used to protect against witchcraft. The biofield of this plant is capable of neutralizing any negative energies. Where the lotus is located, no black magic works; any attempts to create any evil will be nullified.
LOTUS JUICE
Divine and childish-goal
The forehead - through the tropical darkness.
In the eyes that persist to the floor,
Shyness of good families.
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Through virgin letters
It seems to me like a red escape,
Whose virginity is entwined
Good breeding, like a vine.
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Continue your holiness! Mouth and eye
Take care of the sacred vessels!
Born under the tropics
Love, and I come to you from there:
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From ferns, horsetails,
Flocks of reeds, trails without a trace...
Where is all the oblivion of things
In the palm of a lotus stem
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At rest. Induces sleep
Lotus juice. Wine without foam
Lotus juice... Children and wives
How it makes members faint
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Lotus juice... Look, it's empty
Palm. - But at the hour of the moon from the East
(Lotus juice...) - word of mouth
Taste - a dream of lotus juice.
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July 23, 1923
Tsvetaeva Marina
Dropping my sleepy head
Under the fire of the day's rays,
Quietly fragrant lotus
Waiting for the twinkling nights.
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And it just floats out
The gentle moon is in the sky,
He raises his head
Waking up from sleep.
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Glistens on fragrant leaves
His dew is pure tears,
And he trembles with love,
Looking sadly into the heavens.
Heinrich Heine
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