Dryope (daughter of Dryops)

In order to win her favours the god turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet.

The nymphs played with the animal and when Dryope had the tortoise on her lap, Apollo turned into a snake.

[4] In Ovid's version of the story,[3] Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed.

She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot.