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internet meme/urban legend

There have been a rash of recent news articles discussing the "rare udambara flower, which blooms only once every 3000 years" - as far as I have been able to tell, this qualifies as an "urban legend", and the photographs of this "flower" are all photographs of lacewing eggs. I suspect it is only a matter of time before some well-meaning editor attempts to insert some of this into this Wikipedia article, so consider this a heads-up that there are NO RELIABLE SOURCES for the claims, nor the photos. Dyanega (talk) 21:32, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7345137/Rare-Buddhist-flower-found-under-nuns-washing-machine.html

provides an example. "Miao Wei, 50, was cleaning when she discovered the cluster of white flowers under the washing machine. At first she thought the barely-there stems were worm eggs, however, the next day she discovered that the stems had grown 18 white tiny flowers on top and smelled "fragrant"."

Wikipedia@edlis.org (talk) 22:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 There have been a rash of recent news articles discussing the "rare udambara flower, which blooms only once every 3000 years" - as far as I have been able to tell, this qualifies as an "urban legend", and the photographs of this "flower" are all photographs of [[lacewing]] eggs. I suspect it is only a matter of time before some well-meaning editor attempts to insert some of this into this Wikipedia article, so consider this a heads-up that there are NO RELIABLE SOURCES for the claims, nor the photos. [[User:Dyanega|Dyanega]] ([[User talk:Dyanega|talk]]) 21:32, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
+http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7345137/Rare-Buddhist-flower-found-under-nuns-washing-machine.html
+provides an example. "Miao Wei, 50, was cleaning when she discovered the cluster of white flowers under the washing machine. At first she thought the barely-there stems were worm eggs, however, the next day she discovered that the stems had grown 18 white tiny flowers on top and smelled "fragrant"."
+[[User:Wikipedia@edlis.org|Wikipedia@edlis.org]] ([[User talk:Wikipedia@edlis.org|talk]]) 22:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC)