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From: "Ralph Hancock" <hancock@dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Lotus trees
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I don't think this suggestion (from Britannica) has been aired before.
Apologies if I missed it earlier.

The Greeks called several non-narcotic plants lotos, but the name may have
been used in this case for the opium
poppy, the ripe seed pod of which resembles the pod of the true lotus.

Ralph Hancock
hancock@dircon.co.uk
www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm

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