Giant water lilies
This a spectacular pond over in the Bamboo Garden area at the Quail Botanical Gardens. These giant lily pads are called Victoria amazonica and can grow up to 3 meters or more than 9 feet in diameter! These ones were about 2.5 feet across.
posted by at Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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Wow, I don't think I've ever seen those huge lily pads before, incredible!
I love those water lillies! They are also known as Victoria Regia, after Queen Victoria because, german explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who was working at the time for the british crown, took some seeds to her palace.
Tomorrow I am going to a private garden that has a lot of the big amazon lilies. I will try an post a picture in my blog. If you go to: wwwtogofcoralgables.com
you might find the movie clip 'paradise'
Buddha would be ecstatic with those lilies.
Those are weird. but beautiful.
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