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    Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the second largest in the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. It is called Vitória-Régia or Iaupê-Jaçanã...
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    chromosome count is shared with Victoria cruziana, but differs from Victoria amazonica. It is also most similar to Victoria cruziana. Some features have...
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    Victoria Harrison (born 10 May 1982) is a British rock singer and DJ who performs under the stage name Amazonica (and formerly Harry and Dirty Harry)....
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    genus after the new Queen, Victoria, and the species Victoria regia. An earlier account of the species, Euryale amazonica Poeppig, in 1832 described an...
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    Southern Hemisphere. Famous for its long pond of giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica), the garden, first constructed by Pierre Poivre (1719 – 1786) in...
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    Guyana's mining, sugar and rice industries); a shield decorated with the Victoria amazonica lily, Guyana's national flower; three blue wavy lines representing...
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    Pavilion Victoria; the latter features a collection of orchids, carnivorous plants and the giant white water lily Victoria amazonica (Victoria-Seerosen)...
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  • Queen Victoria Paphiopedilum victoria-regina (P. victoria-regina), a species of orchid found in Sumatra Victoria amazonica (synonym: Victoria regina...
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    the genus, the more familiar giant waterlily, Victoria amazonica and the recently discovered Victoria boliviana . A 25 cm diameter flower blooms for...
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    suit the Victoria, purportedly because of a poor ventilation system, and this specimen was moved to another, smaller, house (Victoria amazonica House No...
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    coal. The Victoria regia House or Lily House, built by Paxton in 1849–1850, was devoted to the giant Amazon water lily Victoria amazonica, which flowered...
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    was decided to replace them with 10,000 native species of trees. Victoria amazonica is also present in the campus and is grown to distribute to various...
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    White rangan (Ixora superba) Little mussanda (Mussaenda luteola) Victoria amazonica Harhjora (Cissus quadrangularis) African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata)...
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    anagyroides) from 1725 to 1818, are worth mentioning. The greenhouses with Victoria amazonica and other tropical plants, and the large collection of sub-tropical...
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    next great building at Chatsworth was built for the first seeds of the Victoria regia lily which had been sent to Kew from the Amazon in 1836. Although...
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    longest known petiole is that of the royal waterlily or iaupê jaçanã Victoria amazonica which is up to 23 ft (7.0 m) in length. 'Petiole' comes from Latin...
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    cantilevered beams. The Lily House was built specifically to house the Victoria amazonica waterlily which had recently been discovered by European botanists;...
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  • with food potential that are not consumed on a large scale (such as Victoria amazonica), or to parts that are not usually consumed in common plants (such...
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    to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely Victoria amazonica and Rafflesia arnoldii. In Angola, Welwitsch also discovered Rhipsalis...
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    saccifera, Marojejya darianii, Johannesteijsmannia altifrons, or Victoria amazonica, depending on criteria. The largest of horsetail is the species Equisetum...
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    others, the "star of the waters", which is the giant water lily (Victoria amazonica) plant. A number of versions of the legend exist, based on a girl...
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    same genus have a commensal relationship with the large water lily Victoria amazonica. Visiting the flower for food, the beetles are trapped inside and...
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    trees, and plants that grow in soil, in water and on other plants. Victoria amazonica has the largest undivided leaf of any plant, up to 2.65 m (8 ft 8 in)...
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  • benghalensis Central and South America Ceroxylon quindiuense Puya raimondii Victoria amazonica North America Sequoia sempervirens Sequoiadendron giganteum Picea...
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    Victoria amazonica (giant Amazon waterlilies) in a large greenhouse at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden...
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    Kebun Raya Bogor. One of the most notable inhabitants of the pond is Victoria amazonica. The seed of the plant was sent from Amsterdam Botanical Garden in...
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  • [citation needed] The national flower of Guyana is the Victoria regia lily (Victoria amazonica).[citation needed] The national flower of Paraguay is Mburucuyá...
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  • Ghillean Prance (category Victoria Medal of Honour recipients)
    drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica. Prance is a former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Prance...
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    Retrieved 2021-10-03. "Amazon". Emilio, Mayorga; Miles, G. Logsdon; Maria Victoria, R. Ballester; Jeffrey, E. Richey (2005). "Estimating cell-to-cell land...
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    Grenada – bougainvillea (Nyctaginaceae) Guyana – Queen Victoria water lily (Victoria amazonica) India – Indian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) Jamaica – lignum...
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