Newly identified waterlily species is world ’s largest

Leaves of species grown at Kew Gardens can reach up to three metres in the wildA giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century.Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades there could be a third species of giant waterlily and worked with researchers in its native home in Bolivia to see if their thesis was correct.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Plants Environment Science Biology Source Type: news