They really look like they’re from an alien planet,” said Greta Berg, a horticulturist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, the Denver garden put out the word to botanical gardens worldwide about a giant water lily weigh-off in August. Seventeen gardens with Victoria lilies joined the challenge ...

“I am still doing interviews. Yesterday, it was German television,” said Magdalena, who believes more giant water lily species may be awaiting discovery. Advertising “My beloved nenúfar ...

Explore Brazil’s Amazon Basin to see the Giant Water Lily, with leaves up to 10 feet wide and stunning foot-wide flowers. Visit tropical India and Sri Lanka to see the Talipot Palm’s enormous ...

It may be the very definition of a creepy crawly, but this species of giant millipede was a major discovery for a recent ...

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.

Completed more than a century ago, these artworks reveal the Impressionist’s triumphs—and struggles Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond, 1905. In earlier works, Monet painted the footbridge in a ...