Lotus may refer to:

Plants

* Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: ** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae **

Lotus flower ''Nelumbo nucifera'', also known as sacred lotus, Laxmi lotus, Indian lotus, or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. It is sometimes colloquially called a water lily, though this more often ref ...

, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also known as Indian or sacred lotus *

Lotus tree The lotus tree ( grc-gre, λωτός, ''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 sai ...

, 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 area, unincorporated community in Center Township, Union County, Indiana, Center Township, Union County, Indiana, Union County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History A post office was established at Lotus in 1865, and re ...

, 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, CR 3, accessible to the south by Pineda Causeway and from the no ...

, a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States *

Lotus, Kentucky Lotus is an unincorporated community located in Bullitt County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It b ...

, an unincorporated community in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States

Brands

Lotus Cars Lotus Cars Limited is a British automotive company headquartered in Norfolk, England which manufactures sports cars and racing cars noted for their light weight and fine handling characteristics. Lotus was previously involved in Formula One r ...

, 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, IndyCar, and sports car racing. More ...

, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994 **

Pacific Team Lotus Pacific Racing (later known as Pacific Grand Prix, and finally as Pacific Team Lotus) was a motor racing team from the United Kingdom. Following success in lower formulae, the team took part in two full seasons of Formula One, in and , enterin ...

, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995 **

Lotus GP ART Grand Prix is a French motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters in Europe. In 2012, it competed in the GP2 Series and GP3 Series as Lotus GP to reflect sponsorship from British sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus. The t ...

, 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 *Lotus, a brand of watches, part of the Festina Group * Lotus Foods, an organic rice company *

Lotus Bakeries Lotus Bakeries is a Belgian biscuit company, founded in 1932, with its headquarters in Lembeke, Kaprijke, Belgium. Lotus is known for its speculoos biscuits and biscuit-based products, branded as Lotus Biscoff in the United States, United Kingd ...

, 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 "offloaded" to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2- ...

, a personal computer software company, best known for: ** Lotus Notes, collaborative software, personal information manager and e-mail client now known as IBM Notes ** Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application *Lotus Supercenter, an Asian supermarket chain owned by the

Charoen Pokphand Group The Charoen Pokphand Group Company, Ltd. (CP) (; ) is a Thai conglomerate based in Bangkok. It is Thailand's largest private company and the largest privately held Royal Warrant holder of the Thai Royal Family. The company describes itself as havi ...

Tesco Lotus 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 Malaysia in ...

, a hypermarket chain in Thailand, formerly owned by Lotus Supercenter

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, Jainism and Sikhism. In Asian art a lotus throne is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for ...

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

Ashtamangala The Ashtamangala is a sacred suite of ''Eight Auspicious Signs'' endemic to a number of religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" () are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these attributes (or e ...

(Eight Auspicious Symbols) *

Lotus Sutra The ''Lotus Sūtra'' ( zh, 妙法蓮華經; sa, सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्रम्, translit=Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, lit=Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, italic=) is one of the most influ ...

, an influential Mahayana sutra

Media and entertainment

Music

* Lotus (guitar), an instrument manufacturer * Lotus (American band), 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 son ...

, a 1960s pop band

Albums

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

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 Elephant's 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 studio album by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert that was released on March 13, 2020. The album was released as the deluxe edition of their second studio album ''Eternal Atake'', which was released a week b ...

'' *"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 city-building video game series originally designed by Will Wright. The first game in the series, ''SimCity'', was published by Maxis in 1989 and were followed by several sequels and many other spin-off "''Sim' ...

Other media

Lotus (board game) Lotus is a board game for two to four players, developed by Dominique Tellier and published by Ravensburger, Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The objective of the game is to move one's pieces off the board before the other players. The game board is hex ...

, 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 ''Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors'' is a visual novel and adventure video game developed by Chunsoft. It is the first installment in the ''Zero Escape'' series, and was released in Japan in December 2009 and in North America in November 2 ...

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

Other uses

Law of the unconscious statistician In probability theory and statistics, the law of the unconscious statistician, or LOTUS, is a theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function ''g''(''X'') of a random variable ''X'' when one knows the probability distribution of ''X'' but ...

(LOTUS), a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function