Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-22 | Page 4 | Largest Leaf in World

grows from plant named in honor of queen victoria and measures over five feet in diameter new york the plant which has this most remarkable leaf Is named after queen victoria it was the trib ute of a british traveler in a tar away laud when he discovered the unusual growth the leaf was more than five LEAF OF QUEEN VICTORIA plaat feet in diameter and around it ex tended a rim about three to five inches agh on the inside light green like the surface 0 the lear on the outa de like the leaf s lower art of a bright crimson the stem of the flower was an inch thick near the calyx and stud ded with sharp elastic prickles about three quarters ot an inch in length the calyx was four leaved each up ward of seven inches in length and three in breadth at the base they were thick white inside reddish brown and prickly outride the diameter of the calyx is 12 to 13 inches on it rest ed the magnificent flower which when fully developed covered completely the calyx with its hundred petals when it first opens the flower is white with pink in the middle which spreads oer the whole flower the more it advances in age and it Is generally found the next day of a pink color As if to enhance it beauty it is sweet cendej like others of its tribe it possesses a fleshy disk and petals and stamens pass gradual ly into each other ana many leaves may be observed s we met tl em afterward frequent ly says an explorer and the higher we advanced the more gigantic they became we measured a leaf which was six feet five inches in diameter its rim five and a halt inches high and the flower across 15 inches