Lotus may refer to:

Plants

Lotus (plant) Lotus identifies various plant taxa: * ''Nelumbo'', a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers ** ''Nelumbo nucifera'', the Sacred or Indian lotus ** ''Nelumbo lutea'', the American or yellow lotus * Certain species of ''Nymphaea'' (water lilies ...

, 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 Lotus (formerly, Marshall and Uniontown) is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. Wit ...

, 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, 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, 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 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 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 HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes and Lotus Notes; see Branding below) and HCL Domino (formerly IBM Domino and Lotus Domino) are the client and server Server may refer to: Computing *Server (computing), a computer program or a device that provide ...

, 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 i ...

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 In Asian art a lotus throne, sometimes lotus platform, is a stylized lotus flower used as the seat or base for a figure. It is the normal pedestal for divine figures in Buddhist art and Hindu art, and often seen in Jain art. Originating in Indi ...

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) Lotus was a house brand of certain guitars made in various Asian factories from the late 1970s until the late 1990s. Lotus guitars were usually copies of better-known, up-market brand-name guitars, such as the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stra ...

, an instrument manufacturer *

Lotus (American band) Lotus is an instrumental electronic jam band formed in Indiana in 1999 now based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Denver, Colorado. History Lotus was formed at Goshen College in August 1998 by Steve Clemens, Luke Miller, Mike Rempel, Andy Parad ...

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

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 ''Planet of Ice'' is the third full-length album from Minus the Bear, released in the UK on August 20, 2007 and in the US on August 21 by Suicide Squeeze Records. It was produced and recorded by the band's former keyboard player, Matt Bayles, in ...

'' *"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