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Giant waterlily species, Victoria boliviana, goes undiscovered at London's Kew Gardens for 177 years
As well as being the newest species of giant waterlily, Victoria boliviana, whose leaves grow as wide as three metres in the wild, is also the largest in the world. A paper detailing the years of ...
Researchers revealed a new waterlily species, Victoria boliviana, in a scientific journal Monday. It's the largest waterlily species in the world, with leaves that reach almost 10 feet wide.
The plant has been called Victoria boliviana - named after Bolivia, where it grows in a single water basin in part of the Amazon river system. This video can not be played Botanical artist Lucy ...
The world's largest waterlily has been discovered in the wetlands of northern Bolivia. Even though its lily pads are visible from satellite imagery, Victoria boliviana had remained undetected until ...
The lily — the largest in the world — is from Bolivia and has been named Victoria boliviana, the third species with the genus Victoria named after Britain’s Queen Victoria in 1852.
The three species in the genus are Victoria amazonica, cruziana and boliviana, named after Queen Victoria. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, suggest that the new ...
As well as being the newest species of giant waterlily, "Victoria boliviana", whose leaves grow as wide as three metres in the wild, is also the largest in the world. A paper detailing the years ...
Botanical artist Lucy Smith (L) and Kew Gardens’ scientific and botanical research horticulturalist Carlos Magdalena (R) pose for photographs with the ‘Victoria Boliviana’. (Credits ...
Specimens of the new species, Victoria boliviana, have been sitting in Kew's Herbarium for 177 years and in the National Herbarium of Bolivia (NHB) for 34 years. During this time, it was commonly ...
Scientists have found that a giant waterlily among the collection at Kew’s Botanic Gardens for 177 years is a new species, and “one of the botanical wonders of the world”. The giant waterlily from the ...
The plant has been called Victoria boliviana - named after Bolivia, where it grows in a single water basin in part of the Amazon river system. Horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, one of the world’s ...