World's largest waterlily discovered hiding in plain sight for almost 180 years

Experts at London's Kew Gardens have discovered the first new species of giant waterlily since the mid-19th century — after it was initially mistaken for another.The giant waterlily grows up to 3m wide in the wildSpecimens of the new species lay undiscovered at the botanical garden for 177 years and in the National Herbarium of Bolivia for 34 years., one of the two known varieties of giant waterlilies whose genus was named after queen Victoria in 1852.

But their true identity was revealed after experts at Kew worked with a team from the Latin American country to establish they were, in fact, a third variety., whose leaves grow as wide as three metres in the wild, is also the largest in the world. A paper detailing the years of detective work is outlined in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Plant Sciences.Seeds from the suspected third giant waterlily species were donated by Santa Cruz de La Sierra Botanic Garden and La Rinconada Gardens in Bolivia.

Botanical artist Lucy Smith said they had been growing — unlabelled — in a glasshouse at Kew for the last four years. "A few people have asked, 'Why does this one look so different from the others?' But we've had to say, 'Well, we think it's similar to this or similar to that,'" she said.Carlos Magdalena, a research horticulturalist who specialises in saving plant species that are near extinction, described the plant as "one of the botanical wonders of the world".

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