Victoria Regia, a vegetation giant

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Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, let's discover Victoria Regia, a giant of South American river vegetation in the 18th century.

Natural station of the Victoria Regia in the Berbice River: extract from a scene depicted by Sir R. Schomburgk, in his Views in British Guiana.

The author offers accounts of the discoveries of this giant water lily by European botanists and explorers in the early eighteenth century in Bolivia, Paraguay and French Guiana.

Source of the illustration : Van Houtte, M. L. et al.  (1847). Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe. Annales générales d'horticulture (in French), Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe, tome III, 521 p.

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