Scientists have found that a giant waterlily among the collection at Kew’s Botanic Gardens for 177 years is a new species, and “one of the botanical wonders of the world”.
The giant waterlily from the genus Victoria – named after Queen Victoria in 1852 – breaks the record as the largest in the world, according to a team led by Kew’s scientific and botanical research horticulturist Carlos Magdalena.
