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Mark A. Miller
(Giant Water Platter, Santa Cruz Waterlily)
The large-leaved sultan of the tropical water garden! With gargantuan floating leaves with spiny undersides and rims, the giant water platter is revered for its nighttime fragrant white-to-pink flowers. An annual (perhaps very short-lived perennial) aquatic that is tender to cold, it hails from the still, warm freshwaters in Paraguay, Bolivia and northern Argentina. It grows from a thick rhizome (underground stem).
The rounded leaves are huge, as wide as young child is tall and green...
