A Chinese nun has found an Udumbara flower, which Buddhist legend holds blossoms every 3,000 years, growing under her washing machine.
The flower was found in the home of a Chinese nun in Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi province.
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.