File:Royal Water Lily Opening flower - Victoria Regia - Victoria amazonica.jpeg

Summary
Scan of plate 2 from a monograph describing and illustrating the species Victoria amazonica.

Victoria Regia : or, Illustrations of the Royal water-lily, in a series of figures chiefly made from specimens flowering at Syon and at Kew by Walter Fitch; with descriptions by Sir W.J. Hooker. Scan of illustrations at The New York Public Library.

by Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) and illustrated by Walter Hood Fitch (28 February 1817 – 1892) This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of no more than the life of the author plus 100 years.