Amazon Giant Waterlily
விக்டோரியா அமேசானிகாവിക്റ്റോറിയ റീജിയ
Victoria amazonica (Poepp.) Klotzsch
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Nymphaeaceae
Also called Amazon Giant Water-Lily, Amazonian Giant Water-Lily, Amazon Water-lily, Amazon Waterlily, Amazon water-lily
Formerly Anneslea amazonica, Anneslea brasiliana, Euryale amazonica, Victoria regalis, and 2 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous hydrogeophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Colombia to N. & E. Bolivia and GuyanaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Wikipedia page does not state high: it only describes growth in still water 1-3 m deep
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Ninfa Reina Victoria
- Chinese
- 大王蓮 亞馬遜王蓮, 亚马孙王莲, 王莲
- Portuguese
- Vitória-régia
- root
- Irupé, Ամազոնյան վիկտորիա
- Estonian
- amasoonase viktooria
- Chinese (China)
- 王莲, 亞馬逊王蓮, 亚马逊王莲
- Czech
- viktorie královská
- Japanese
- オオオニバス
- Dutch
- Reuzenwaterlelie
- Croatian
- Divovski amazonski lopoč
- Danish
- Kæmpeåkande
- Russian
- Виктория амазонская, Виктория Регия
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.