The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

VICTORIA

Victoria is a genus of tropical American aquatic plants belonging to the family Nymphaeaceae. There is one species, the beautiful Queen Victoria water lily, water platter or royal water lilly (Victoria regia). It is a remarkable plant bearing oval or orbicular leaves often 160 centimetres in diameter. The flowers are very large, the sepals being brownish in colour, whilst the outer petals are white and spreading, and the inner petals are rose-coloured and filamentous. The flowers are followed by large, green, prickly fleshy berries, containing numerous dark-coloured seeds.

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