Results for "sacred"
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Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera
The pink aquatic flower sacred in Asia and grown for food, worship and beauty
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
Sacred garlic pearCrateva religiosa
A tropical tree with spidery, nectar-rich flowers
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Wildflower
Sacred daturaDatura wrightii
White trumpet-shaped flower with a strong scent, sacred in Native American rites
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Ashtamangalaअष्टमङ्गल
A sacred set of eight auspicious symbols in Indian religions
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Art or design
Decoration
Chaplet
A ring-shaped headpiece woven from flowers, leaves, or twigs
Garland or wreath
Decoration
Aripanअरिपन
Finger-drawn rice paste floor art from Mithila for rituals and festivals
🇮🇳 India · Carpet or floor pattern
Decoration
Hindu weddingविवाह
The traditional marriage ceremony of Hindus, rich in rituals and floral decoration
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Custom
Decoration
Lotus throneपद्मासन
A stylized lotus flower base for divine figures in Indian and Asian art
🇮🇳 India · Offering or rite
BaelAegle marmelos
A spiny tree with fragrant yellow-green flowers and hard-shelled aromatic fruit
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Flowering tree
LotusNelumbo
Aquatic plants with large, round leaves and striking flowers called lotus
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
BrahmakamalSaussurea obvallata
A Himalayan alpine flower with papery bracts, sacred in Indian hill temples
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Wildflower
PaperwhiteNarcissus tazetta
A tall, white-and-yellow narcissus grown for scent and indoor blooms
🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Bulb flower
Sausage treeKigelia africana
African tree with large sausage-shaped fruit and striking maroon flowers
🇰🇪 Kenya and 2 more · Flowering tree
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
The sky-blue water lily of ancient Egypt and African lakes
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 more · Water flower
ʻŌhiʻa LehuaMetrosideros polymorpha
The sacred flowering tree of Hawaiʻi with pom-pom blossoms from red to yellow
Metrosideros polymorpha · Wildflower
YellowhornXanthoceras sorbifolium
A hardy flowering tree from northern China with edible seeds and fragrant white blooms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering tree
Datura innoxia
A white-flowered night-blooming plant with spiny fruit and toxic parts
🇨🇺 Cuba and 4 more · Wildflower
Flame of the forestButea monosperma
A tree with vivid orange-red flowers, sacred in Hindu and Buddhist traditions
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Star jasmineJasminum multiflorum
A white, scentless jasmine used in Indian weddings and worship
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Wildflower
Prunus itosakura糸桜
A long-lived wild cherry of Japan with clouds of pale flowers before the leaves
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ashtamangala: Redtigerxyz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paperwhite: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bael: Asit K. Ghosh Thaumaturgist, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Star jasmine: Atamari, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yellowhorn: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), Public domain, source
- Datura innoxia: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lotus: Peripitus, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sacred garlic pear: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Chaplet: Unknown author, CC BY 2.5, source
- Prunus itosakura: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Aripan: Sntshkumar750, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hindu wedding: Dinesh Cyanam, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lotus throne: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Sacred lotus: T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blue water lily: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- ʻŌhiʻa Lehua: David Eickhoff, CC BY 2.0, source
- Flame of the forest: SumaTagadur 05:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Brahmakamal: Schwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sacred datura: Dlarsen, Public domain, source
- Sausage tree: Photographs: Ettore Balocchi (upper left), Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (, CC BY-SA 3.0, source