Blue Lotus Flowers

Blue Lotus, Nymphaea caerulea, has been revered for thousands of years, from the temple carvings of ancient Egypt, where it symbolized rebirth and the rising sun, to the quiet freshwater lakes of Ceylon, where it was gathered for ceremony, ritual, and rest. In Sri Lanka, the flower carries its own sacred history, offered in temples and woven into everyday moments of stillness long before it became known to the wider world.

Our blossoms are hand-harvested at dawn from pristine, unpolluted freshwater lakes in Sri Lanka's interior, where the blue lotus still grows wild and undisturbed. Local harvesters wade out to gather each flower by hand, selecting only fully-opened blossoms at their peak. The flowers are then laid out and sun-dried whole, never crushed or fragmented, so what arrives in your cup is the same intact bloom that grew on the water.

Blue lotus contains naturally occurring alkaloids, including aporphine and nuciferine, long associated with a sense of calm, gentle euphoria, and vivid dreaming. For centuries it has been steeped as a tea in the quiet hours of the evening, a ritual of slowing down rather than a stimulant to speed up.

Steep two to three whole blossoms in hot water for eight to ten minutes to make a soft, faintly floral tea, or scatter a few petals into a warm bath as part of an evening wind-down ritual. However you use it, treat it the way it has always been treated: as something sacred, and something to be still with.