victoria amazonica

Victoria Amazonica, the enormous water lily, grows regally in one of the pools.

He was the first European to discover the largest water lily Victoria amazonica (in 1801) and advocated the medicinal benefit of hot springs.

Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies.

Laka Rana Tojong where the Victoria amazonica giant lily grows.

It was built to house the Victoria Amazonica, the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies.

Among its collections are azalea, cornus, greenhouses of Victoria amazonica, and 300 types of dahlias.

Giant water Lillies on Amazon River (Victoria amazonica).

Victoria amazonica is native to the shallow waters of the Amazon River basin, such as oxbow lakes and bayous.

Floating on the water are excellent specimens of the Victoria Amazonica and Victoria Cruziana lilies from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

Indeed, the old dome's skeleton was organic, patterned after the veinous ribs of the Victoria amazonica, an aquatic plant whose counterparts are floating contentedly nearby in a courtyard pool.

The principal element is the roundel escutcheon which is shaped to resemble the Victoria amazonica's big circular leaf which has two indented openings on the top and bottom.

His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely Victoria amazonica and Rafflesia arnoldii.

Rivers filled with huge caimans, the world's largest water lilies (the Victoria amazonica) and a mindboggling variety of colorful birds, cut through plains of golden grasses and termite mounds.

He has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but he perhaps drew more attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica.

The greenhouses with Victoria amazonica and other tropical plants, and the large collection of sub-tropical plants in the recently renovated Orangery and the new Winter Garden draw many visitors.

The women wear brightly coloured blouses, lots of petticoats instead of underwear, and marvellous stovepipe hats made of palm leaf with brims with turned-up edges like the Victoria amazonica lily pad.

Back to the plants, the water-lily house, and in Greenhouse 12, Victoria Amazonica with her huge plate-shaped leaves six feet across and her spiky blossom, floating in her pond, her harbour, doing nothing at all.

Three hours upriver is Karanambu Lodge, where you can swim with giant river otters, go on safari looking for giant anteater, jabaroo storks and see the Victoria amazonica lilypad, which can take the weight of a child.

B Map Highlights at the Botanic Garden include a restored 1877 palm house, the new waterlily pavilion (housing the gigantic Victoria amazonica ) and the fabulous steel-and-glass arc of the Bicentennial Conservatory, which recreates a tropical rainforest.

The Lily House was built specifically to house the giant Victoria amazonica waterlily which had only recently been discovered by European botanists; the first specimen to reach England was originally kept at Kew Gardens, but it did not do well.

There is every chance yours will be the only boat on the river, and its ponds of giant Victoria Amazonica lilies, which have six-foot-wide leaves with delicate white flowers and attendant flocks of egrets, have the atmosphere of a gloriously decorated church.

Herds of tame deer, introduced by the Dutch as a source of venison but now kept as pets, roam the lawn in front of the presidential palace, and some of Sukarno's nude statues perch in the shade of ficus trees near a reflecting pond planted with huge, platter-shaped Victoria amazonica waterlilies.