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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest

A 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.

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