SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

Colombia

File number: cdb0055

© South American Pictures/ Luke Peters

Colombia.  A group of tourists use a wooden path over a lagoon filled with the giant water lilies Victoria regia (V.amazonica). The plant was named in honour of the British Queen Victoria after their discovery by the explorer-naturalist Robert Schomburg in the 19th century.

 

 

 

 


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