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 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 new giant water lily, called Victoria boliviana, has been sitting at Kew —which holds a massive collection of preserved plants — for 177 years. The plant has been growing in a number of ...

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 ...

Botanical artist Lucy Smith (L) and Kew Gardens’ scientific and botanical research horticulturalist Carlos Magdalena (R) pose for photographs with the ‘Victoria Boliviana’. (Credits ...

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 ...

A giant water lily held in Kew’s Botanic Gardens for 177 years has been revealed as a species new to science and “one of the botanical wonders of the world”. The famous giant water lily ...

An enormous waterlily in London’s Royal Botanic Gardens has been discovered to belong to an entirely new species, after 177 years in the gardens’ herbarium. Load ...