Giant Water Lilies with Brie Langley & Vanessa Callahan

About this episode

The episode discusses the giant water lily and its remarkable characteristics with experts from botanic gardens.

On this episode of Plant People , host Jennifer Bernstein—CEO and The William C. Steere Senior President of NYBG, joins Vanessa Callahan of Denver Botanic Gardens and Brie Langley of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew to chat about one of the plant world’s most gargantuan figures: the giant water lily. From its unique leaf structure, which allows its pads to hold well over 100 pounds in some cases, to the 10-foot diameter that some Amazonian specimens can achieve, these larger-than-life plants are some of our planet’s most fascinating lifeforms.

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Bernstein

Guests: Vanessa Callahan, Brie Langley

Topics covered

• giant water lily
• plant biology
• botanical gardens
• Amazonian plants
• leaf structure

Keywords

• giant water lily
• plant world
• leaf structure
• Amazonian specimens
• botanical gardens

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Botanical Garden, Denver Botanic Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

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