London, March 2 (IANS) A Chinese nun has found an Udumbara flower, which Buddhist legend holds blossoms every 3,000 years, growing under her washing machine, a newspaper reported.
The flower was found in the home of a Chinese nun in Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi province, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The Udumbara – apparently Sanskrit for �an auspicious flower from heaven� – measures just 1 mm in diameter and is said to find mentions in Buddhist mythology on account of its supposed rarity.
The newspaper said Miao Wei, 50, discovered the white flower under her washing machine.
It said after mistaking its barely-there stems as worm eggs, she found that they had grown 18 white tiny flowers the next day and smelled “fragrant”.
Local temples believe the mini blooms are specimens of the miraculous Udumbara.
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