In a crime that will shock the green-fingered, a thief has made off with the tiny water lily Nymphaea thermarum – one of the rarest plants in the world – from a botanical gardens in London. The plant, ...

Last month, a troubling crime took place in the London borough of Richmond. It wasn’t a burglary or a handbag snatched from one of the wealthy residents. It took place at Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens ...

Water garden enthusiasts have something to be excited about: A purple-blooming water lily that can survive the winter right here in Lawrence. The new lily, Nymphaea “Purple Fantasy,” has been growing ...

Everyone is familiar with water lilies; they have round, floating leaves (lily pads) and elegant flowers. They are admired by most people and appreciated by small creatures such as damselflies and ...

The world's smallest water lily, which was narrowly saved from extinction by experts, has been plucked from Kew Gardens by green-fingered thieves. Known by Kew botanists as the ‘pygmy Rwandan water ...

The world’s smallest water lily has been stolen after green fingered thieves struck at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Staff at the internationally renowned centre, were devastated when they ...

The world's smallest known water lily (Nymphaea thermarum), extinct in its native central African habitat, is thriving in a British botanical garden. Scientists hope to someday return it to the wild ...

An exceptionally rare flower that is virtually extinct has been stolen from London's Kew Gardens, in a crime that experts say could be the work of an obsessed collector. British newspapers say that ...

Although all past floras of northern North America have recognized only one species of diminutive water-lily, actually two distinct species occur in the region. The circumboreal Nymphaea tetragona ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A classical example of petal-to-stamen transition is the flower of white water lily (Nymphaea alba s.l., Nymphaeaceae). The description in ...