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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 cruziana A.D.Orb. Parana-Paraguay basin: Slightly smaller than V. amazonica, with the underside of the leaves purple rather than the red of V. amazonica, and covered with a peachlike fuzz lacking in V. amazonica. V. cruziana opens its flowers at dusk. Victoria boliviana Magdalena & L.T.Sm. [2] [20] Bolivia
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.
Victoria boliviana differs in many different features from the remaining two species of the genus. This includes its larger seed and ovule size (each seed being about 70% longer and wider, and over four times as voluminous as those of V. amazonica and V. cruziana ), [ 6 ] as well as its moderate or intermediate rim height of the leaf lamina .
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
The national flower of Guyana is the Victoria regia lily (Victoria amazonica). [citation needed] ... Victoria – Pink (Common) Heath (Epacris impressa) [108]
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