In 1878, Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari came across the enormous plant growing in the rainforests of Sumatra, a large island in western Indonesia. The specimen he recorded had a circumference of ...
A blue Egyptian water lily, a potential inspiration for flower petals painted on a casket found in Tut's tomb. 68/Partha Pal/Ocean/Corbis What makes us want to grow a lily in a pot? It’s a question at ...
Maybe the word most associated with Georgia O’Keeffe is “vagina,” but it could just as easily be “cash.” Sold in 2014 for $44.4 million, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” holds the record for the ...