A Missouri Botanical Gardens Victoria lily held up under 142 pounds, besting competitors from gardens and zoos around the world. The St. Louis institution has been growing water lilies since 1894. A ...

This year's Water Lily Weigh Off was tougher (and more creative) than ever, with contestants holding up cheesecakes, ceramic frogs, and much more. The most wholesome sporting event of the year doesn’t ...

It took seven years to grow, and the bloom lasted only a few days. For botanist Edward Read, it was worth it. Cultivating a massive Amazonian water lily in a modest concrete basin has been his labor ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. — Two rare Victoria water lilies (Victoria 'Longwood Hybrid') have grown to an unusually large size at Bok Tower Gardens this summer. Grown in the Reflection Pool near the Singing ...

It is pound for pound the greatest test of strength on water... VANESSA CALLAHAN: We first tried testing how much weight our water lily could hold several years ago, and we had heard about people ...

LITTLETON - It starts at sunset with a large white bloom that almost glows as it emits heat and the scent of pineapple and bananas that can be smelled 20 to 30 feet away. To witness the bloom of a ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis hosted its Victoria water lilies strength contest, in which horticulturalists place sandbags and other heavy items on the several-feet-wide lillies to see ...

ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Botanical Garden has been cultivating giant Victoria water lilies for well over a century, with the first bloom recorded in 1894. These aquatic marvels are a perennial summer ...

CHINA, 3 November (BelTA - Xinhua). - The Victoria ‘Dreamer,' a new species of Victoria water lily cultivated in southwest China's Yunnan province, was recently approved by an international authority ...

The Atlanta Botanical Garden put its strongest water lilies to the test during a TikTok challenge against botanical gardens across the United States and the United Kingdom. The Denver Botanical Garden ...

Visitors to Bok Tower Gardens may wonder, as they gaze at a gargantuan lily pad in the reflection pond, “How much weight could that thing hold?” Now we have an answer: 183 pounds. That is the ...