Giant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), flowers, buds and lilypads in situ on a river. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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