Giant waterlilies

• about

• in the wild

• at Kew

• timelapse sequence

Giant waterlily in the Princess of Wales Conservatory

Factfile

Flowering period

July - October (at Kew)

Max leaf size

> 2.5m

Timelapse footage of a full flowering sequence,
covering 48 hours in 37 seconds

If the above movie does not play (requires Quicktime), try one of the following links:

• Quicktime .mov format, c. 720KB
• Windows .avi format, c. 1.4MB