The new species is also the largest giant waterlily on the planet, with leaves growing up to three metres in the wild
A giant waterlily grown at Kew Gardens has been named as new to science, in the first discovery of its type in more than a century.
Scientists at the south-west London garden suspected for decades there could be a third species of giant waterlily and worked with researchers in its native home in Bolivia to see if their thesis was correct.
