Victoria Amazonica Water Lily

Victoria amazonica Native to South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Perú), V. amazonica Named for Queen Victoria, the giant water platter Victoria was first known to the world in l801.All Victorias are night blooming, scenting the afternoon and evening air with their pineapple-like fragrance in anticipation of the first night flower, huge and white. The second night cruziana flower is delicately flushed pink. V. amazonica becomes cotton candy pink to ruby red depending on the individual plant.The pads are maroon/bronze when they first reach the water's surface to bronze/green as they age, with rims just slightly upturned in young plants and low rims in mature adults. Buds are squat with numerous thorns on the dark maroon sepals.

Victoria amazonicaNative to Brazil and the Amazon this lily can grow up to 8' leaves that can hold 300lbs. These strong and stiff leaves are covered with spines on the maroon bottom of supporting ribs and sides. They only reproduce through seeds, which can lay dormant in the mud for up to 4 years before germinating. The plant goes through an annual dormancy period before producing more leaves that increase in size before flowering again.

Victoria amazonica Native to South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Perú), V. amazonica Named for Queen Victoria, the giant water platter Victoria was first known to the world in l801.All Victorias are night blooming, scenting the afternoon and evening air with their pineapple-like fragrance in anticipation of the first night flower, huge and white. The second night cruziana flower is delicately flushed pink. V. amazonica becomes cotton candy pink to ruby red depending on the individual plant.The pads are maroon/bronze when they first reach the water's surface to bronze/green as they age, with rims just slightly upturned in young plants and low rims in mature adults. Buds are squat with numerous thorns on the dark maroon sepals.

Victoria amazonica Native to South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Perú), V. amazonica Named for Queen Victoria, the giant water platter Victoria was first known to the world in l801.All Victorias are night blooming, scenting the afternoon and evening air with their pineapple-like fragrance in anticipation of the first night flower, huge and white. The second night cruziana flower is delicately flushed pink. V. amazonica becomes cotton candy pink to ruby red depending on the individual plant.The pads are maroon/bronze when they first reach the water's surface to bronze/green as they age, with rims just slightly upturned in young plants and low rims in mature adults. Buds are squat with numerous thorns on the dark maroon sepals.

Victoria amazonica Native to Brazil and the Amazon this lily can grow up to 8' leaves that can hold 300lbs. These strong and stiff leaves are covered with spines on the maroon bottom of supporting ribs and sides. They only reproduce through seeds, which can lay dormant in the mud for up to 4 years before germinating. The plant goes through an annual dormancy period before producing more leaves that increase in size before flowering again.

Victoria amazonica Native to South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Perú), V. amazonica Named for Queen Victoria, the giant water platter Victoria was first known to the world in l801.All Victorias are night blooming, scenting the afternoon and evening air with their pineapple-like fragrance in anticipation of the first night flower, huge and white. The second night cruziana flower is delicately flushed pink. V. amazonica becomes cotton candy pink to ruby red depending on the individual plant.The pads are maroon/bronze when they first reach the water's surface to bronze/green as they age, with rims just slightly upturned in young plants and low rims in mature adults. Buds are squat with numerous thorns on the dark maroon sepals.

Water Lily Bud Nymphaea Subgenus Hydrocallis Beautiful large white or occasionally pink many-petaled flowers float on the water's surface surrounded by large, round green leaves. Mature Nymphaea odorata leaves are often spherical, cleft at the base, smooth to 25 cm across, often purple on the lower surface, with most of the leaves floating. The leaves are attached to flexible underwater stalks rising from thick fleshy rhizomes. The horizontal creeping and branching rhizomes (2-3 cm in diameter) are attached by roots arising in groups below the leaf bases. The petioles leave crescent-shaped scars on the rhizome when shed. Showy flowers rise on long solitary stalks and are borne at the surface of the water or elevated slightly above it. The white (sometimes pink) fragrant flowers measuire up to 25 cm across and have yellow centers surrounded by 25 or more petals. After the flower has finished, the stalk forms a spiral and draws the fruit below the water. The fruit is a capsule 1-2 cm in diameter containing many seeds (2-3 mm long).