Victoria water lilies are among the largest in the world, spanning up to 10 feet in the Amazon rainforest with sturdy leaf pads that can easily support a small child. It turns out the strongest ones ...

Victoria water lily leaves stretch up to eight feet wide, big enough to be seen from space. But how much can these thin leaves hold? Denver Botanic Gardens asked that with its water lily weigh-off, ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — A worldwide botanical garden contest officially crowned Missouri as the winner on Tuesday. The results of the international "water lily weigh-off" found the Missouri Botanical Garden's ...

The international competition, started by Denver Botanic Gardens, included over 40 participants from nine countries. The giant Victoria water lilies are grown annually from seeds the size of a ...

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 ...

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 ...