Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — Largest Leaf In the World. [ARTICLE]

Largest Leaf In the World.

The plant which has this most remarkable leaf is named after Queen Victoria. It was the tribute of a British traveler in a faraway land when he discovered the unusual growth. The leaf was more than five feet in diameter, and around it extended a rim about three to five inches high. When it first opens, the flower is white, with pink in the middle, which spreads over the whole flower the more It advances in age, and it is generally found tbe next day of a pink color. As if to enhance Its beauty, It Is sweet scented. Like others of the tribe, it possesses a fleshy disk, and petals and stamens pass gradually into each other, and many petaloid leaves may be observed. “We met them afterward frequently,” 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 half inches high and the flower across fifteen inches.”—Dundee Advertiser.