Lotus or LOTUS may refer to:

Plants

List of plants known as lotus Lotus identifies various plant taxa: * ''Nelumbo'', a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers known as lotuses, having two extant species: ** ''Nelumbo nucifera'', the Sacred or Indian lotus ** ''Nelumbo lutea'', the American or yellow lotus * ...

, a list of various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: **''

Nelumbonaceae Nelumbonaceae is a family of aquatic flowering plants. '' Nelumbo'' is the sole extant genus, containing ''Nelumbo lutea'', native to North America, and ''Nelumbo nucifera'', widespread in Asia. At least five other genera, '' Nelumbites'', '' Ex ...

'', a single-genus family of aquatic flowering plants, consisting of just two species; the American lotus and the better known

sacred lotus Sacred lotus may refer to: *''Nelumbo nucifera'', also known as "Indian lotus" ** Padma (attribute), ''Nelumbo nucifera'' in Indian religions **Lotus throne in Buddhist and Hindu art *''Nymphaea caerulea ''Nymphaea nouchali'' var. ''caerulea'' ...

, or the Indian lotus, a symbolically important Asian plant ** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae *

Lotus tree The lotus tree (, ''lōtós'') is a plant that is referred to in stories from Greek and Roman mythology. The lotus tree is mentioned in Homer's '' Odyssey'' as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only f ...

, a plant in Greek and Roman mythology

Places

* Lotus, California, an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States *

Lotus, Indiana Lotus is an unincorporated community in Center Township, Union County, in the U.S. state of Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to th ...

, an unincorporated community in Union County, Indiana, United States *

Lotus, Florida Lotus is a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is the location of Honeymoon Hill, the highest point on Merritt Island. Only one road runs through the area, Brevard County Route 3, CR 3, accessible to the south by Florida ...

, a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States * Lotus, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States

Brands

Cars and car racing

Lotus Cars Lotus Group (also known as Lotus Cars) is a British multinational automotive manufacturer of luxury sports cars and electric vehicles. Lotus Group is composed of three primary entities. Lotus Cars, a high-performance sports car company, is ba ...

, a British motor vehicle manufacturer **

Lotus F1 Team Lotus F1 Team was a British Formula One racing team. The team competed under the Lotus name from until , following the renaming of the former Renault team based at Enstone in Oxfordshire. The Lotus F1 Team was majority owned by Genii Capital ...

, a British Formula One team that started competing in the 2012 season **

Team Lotus Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, American Championship Car Racing, Ind ...

, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994 ** Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995 ** Lotus GP, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars *

Team Lotus (2010–11) Team Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport categories including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar, and sports car racing. More ...

, a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season

Other brands

Lotus (guitar) Lotus was a house brand belonging to Midco International of Illinois. The brand was applied to guitars, basses, banjos, and mandolins made in various Asian factories from the late 1970s until the early 2000s. Lotus guitars were usually copies of ...

, an instrument manufacturer *Lotus, a brand of watches, part of the Festina Group *

Lotus Foods Lotus Foods is a Richmond, California, based company that focuses on importing handcrafted rice from small family farms to the United States. The company was founded in 1995 by Caryl Levine and Kenneth Lee. Their first and most popular product i ...

, an organic rice company *

Lotus Bakeries Lotus Bakeries NV is a Belgian multinational snack food company founded in 1932. Based in Lembeke, Kaprijke, the company's best known product is Speculoos (known as Biscoff in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Au ...

, a Belgian bakery founded in 1932 *

Lotus Software Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was sold to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2-3 sprea ...

, a personal computer software company, best known for: **

Lotus Notes HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) is a proprietary collaborative software platform for Unix ( AIX), IBM i, Windows, Linux, and macOS, sold by HCLTech. The client application is called Notes while the server component is branded ...

, collaborative software, personal information manager and e-mail client now known as IBM Notes **

Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus 1-2-3 is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (later part of IBM). It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles ...

spreadsheet application *

Lotus's Lotus's (formerly known as Lotus Supercenter, Tesco Lotus Supercenter and Tesco Lotus) is a retail chain in Thailand founded and operated by Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, with operations in Malaysia following the acquisition of Tesco internationa ...

, formerly Lotus Supercenter and Tesco Lotus, a hypermarket chain in Thailand and Malaysia operated by Charoen Pokphand Group

Religion

Sacred lotus in religious art The lotus (), ''Nelumbo nucifera'', is an aquatic plant that plays a central role in the art of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Asian art, a lotus throne is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for a figur ...

Lotus throne The lotus throne, sometimes called lotus platform, is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for a figure in art associated with Indian religions. It is the normal pedestal for divine figures in Buddhist art and Hindu art, and often see ...

base for figures in Asian religious art * Lotus, one of the

Ashtamangala The Ashtamangala () is the sacred set of Eight Auspicious Signs ( zh, 八吉祥, ''bajixiang'') featured in a number of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" () are yidam and teaching too ...

(Eight Auspicious Symbols) *

Lotus Sutra The ''Lotus Sūtra'' (Sanskrit: ''Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram'', ''Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma'', zh, p=Fǎhuá jīng, l=Dharma Flower Sutra) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras. ...

, an influential Mahayana sutra

Media and entertainment

Music

Artists

Lotus (Australian band) Lotus were a short-lived Australian rock, pop band formed in 1970. They are a one-hit wonder with their sole release, "Lotus 1 (I'll Be Gone)" (December 1970), reaching No. 33 on the ''Go-Set'' National Top 60 in the following May. It w ...

, a 1970s rock, pop band *

Lotus (American band) Lotus is an instrumental electronic jam band formed in Goshen, Indiana in 1998 now based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , and Denver, Colorado. History Lotus was formed at Goshen College in August 1998 by Steve Clemens, Luke Miller, Michael Re ...

, an instrumental rock band *

Lotus (Hong Kong band) The Lotus was a popular English pop/rock band in Hong Kong in the 1960s. The most notable member was Samuel Hui. Career The band along with Roman and the Four Steps was noteworthy for singing in English and often singing British and American ...

, a 1960s pop band

Albums

* ''Lotus'' (Christina Aguilera album) (2012), by Christina Aguilera * ''Lotus'' (Elisa album) (2003), by Elisa * ''Lotus'' (Little Simz album) (2025), by Little Simz * ''Lotus'' (Santana album) (1974), by Santana *''Lotus'' (2009), by

Haywyre Martin Sebastian Vogt (born August 8, 1992), better known by his stage name Haywyre, is an American electronic music producer, pianist, and performer. He is known for fusing elements of classical, jazz and funk into various genres of electronic ...

* ''Lotus'' (Soen album) (2019), by Soen

Songs

* "Lotus" (Arashi song), by Arashi * "Lotus" (Dir En Grey song), a song by Dir En Grey * "Lotus" (R.E.M. song), by R.E.M. *"Lotus", a song from ''Cage The Elephants debut album *”Lotus”, a song by Lil Uzi Vert on the album ''

Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2 ''Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2'' is a Reissue, reissue studio album by American rapper and singer Lil Uzi Vert. It was released through Generation Now and Atlantic Records on March 13, 2020. The album was released as the deluxe edition of their s ...

'' *"Lotus", a song by Minus the Bear on '' Planet of Ice'' *"Lotus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album ''

Sim City ''SimCity'' is an Open-ended (gameplay), open-ended City-building game, city-building video game franchise originally designed by Will Wright (game designer), Will Wright. The first game in the series, ''SimCity (1989 video game), SimCity'', ...

Other media

* Lotus (board game), a strategy game * ''Lotus'' (magazine), a trilingual political and cultural magazine * ''Lotus'' (video game series), a videogame series based on Lotus cars *Lotus, the codename of a character in the 2009 video game '' Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors'' * Lotus TV Macau, a television channel in Macau

Vessels

* ''Lotus'' (1826 ship), English ship * ''Lotus'' (motor vessel), a houseboat yacht * S.S. ''Lotus'', a French steamship involved in the ''Lotus case'' criminal trial * S.S.S. ''Lotus'', an American sailing vessel

People

Lotus (given name) Lotus is a given name. It is a List of plants known as lotus, botanical name. It may refer to: Women *Lotus Blossom (born 2007), Japanese-American actress and daughter of Ernie Reyes Jr. *Lotus Long (born Lotus Pearl Shibata; 1909 – 1990), Americ ...

*Lotus Blossom (born 2007) Japanese-American actress and daughter of

Ernie Reyes Jr. Ernie Reyes Jr. (born January 15, 1972) is an American actor and martial artist, known for his acting work in films such as ''The Last Dragon'', ''Red Sonja'' (1985), as Donatello's stuntman in ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (1990), '' Teenage ...

* Lotus de Païni (1862–1953) Italian-born painter, writer, sculptor, and occultist *

Lotus Long Lotus Long (born Lotus Pearl Shibata, July 18, 1909 – September 14, 1990) was an Asian-American film actress. Early life Long was born in New Jersey to Ishiro Shibata and Blanche Leleu. She came to Southern California during the 1920s to a ...

(1909–1990), Asian-American actress

Other uses

* Law of the unconscious statistician, a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function * Lateral olfactory tract usher substance, a protein in nerve cells promoting axon growth *Leticia "Lotus" Madrigal, a character from the Philippine drama series ''

Abot-Kamay na Pangarap ( / international title: ''Hands on the Dream'') is a Philippine television medical drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by L.A. Madridejos, it stars Carmina Villarroel and Jillian Ward. It premiered on September 5, 2022 on the ne ...

'' * Operation Lotus (disambiguation), multiple meanings