Lotus Victoria: a new tourist attraction for Yunnan

Updated: Aug 14, 2019 By Li Yingqing in Kunming chinadaily.com.cn Print

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The Lotus Victoria has attracted thousands of tourists to the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Southwest China's Yunnan province. [Photo by Zhang Jiaojiao/Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

It has the largest leaf of any aquatic plant, with a diameter up to two meters, and is able to hold objects as heavy as 70 kilograms.

Its leaf features thorns that face toward the water, which provide the plant a means of protection, and the Lotus Victoria's flower changes color from white to pink and then to purplish pink for each of its three days in blossom.

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