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Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the second largest in the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. It is called Vitória-Régia or Iaupê-Jaçanã ("the lilytrotter's waterlily") in Brazil and Atun Sisac ("great flower") in Inca (Quechua).
Victoria or giant waterlily [4] is a genus of aquatic herbs in the plant family Nymphaeaceae. [5] Its leaves have a remarkable size: Victoria boliviana produces leaves up to 3.2 metres (10 ft) in width. [ 2 ]
Victoria amazonica has the largest undivided leaf of any plant, up to 2.65 m (8 ft 8 in) in diameter. The parasitic genera Hydnora and Prosopanche are the only flowering plants with no evidence of leaves or scales.
originally, the tugboat Triton, formerly Victoria Cruziana, rebuilt into a river cruise ship in 1994, Victoria Amazonica: I. A. Krylov: 1956: 95.8 m (314 ft) 263:
Nymphaeaceae is a small family of three to six genera: Barclaya, Euryale, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Ondinea, and Victoria. The genus Barclaya is sometimes given rank as its own family, Barclayaceae , on the basis of an extended perianth tube (combined sepals and petals ) arising from the top of the ovary and by stamens that are joined in the base.
Victoria amazonica grows in the Amazon basin. National Flower of Colombia. The national flower of Colombia is the orchid Cattleya trianae which was named after the ...
Victoria amazonica, a water lily native to the shallow waters of the Amazon River basin Cardiocrinum giganteum , a lily native to the Himalayas, China, and Myanmar Index of plants with the same common name
View of the giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) pond. Pamplemousses was probably the earliest of the 'botanical gardens' in the tropics; an 18th-century garden maintained as a nursery for the acclimatization of potential crop plants from overseas – although its status as a botanic garden is disputed. [5]