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Giant Amazonian Water Lily
Victoria amazonica
-3.41684, -65.8561
Field Notes
Description:
The species has very large leaves, up to 3 m in diameter, that float on the water's surface on a submerged stalk, 7–8 m in length
The largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies.
Habitat:
Amazon basin, oxbow lakes and bayous
Notes:
spotted this on a 10 day trek in the Brazilian Amazon, near Manaus. It was raining hard when we finally got to it and it was really muddy but I wasn't going to let that stop me. I stopped trying to keep my feet dry and tried to get close to take a better picture of the flowers but as I stepped onto the grass featured in the third photo, I sunk up to my knees! that was as close as I was going to get!
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Victoria amazonica
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PublishedApril 26, 2011
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