Victoria cruziana
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Victoria cruziana, d'Orbigny (known in cult. as V. regia var. Trickeri, and V. Trickeri). Lvs. densely villous beneath, upturned margins green, 6-8 in. high: fls. becoming deep red-pink the second evening; sepals prickly only at base, smooth above: prickles of ovary over 1/2 in. (15-16 mm.) long, crowded: seed subglobose, about 1/3 in. (7 1/2-9 mm.) diam.; raphe stout; operculum elongate-ovate, with hilum and micropyle equidistant from the margin. Parana River and tributaries, Paraguay. Tricker, Water Garden, pl. 1; pp. 51, 55. Caspary, Fl. Brasil. 4, pt. 2, pl. 38, fig. 16 (seed). Gn.M. 1:267. A.G. 19:449. F.E. 10:suppl. Feb. 12 (1898).—Intro. by Wm. Tricker in 1894. Forma mattogrossensis, Malme, has low rim on lf.: seed very large (8-10 mm. diam.) with broadly oval operculum: sepals either smooth or spiny. Corumba, state of Matto Grosso, Brazil. Acta Hort. Bot. Bergiani, 4: pls. 1-4 (1907).
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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