The tropical zone includes a raised pool with aquatic plants including the water lily Victoria cruziana.

He introduced a water lily with 6-feet pads from South America, which he named Victoria trickeri, although it is now known as Victoria cruziana.

In 2010 Victoria cruziana (giant Amazon waterlily) was also successfully grown in the tropical greenhouse which drew numerous curious visitors to the Garden.

Included is three nights' accommodation on board the impressive MPS Victoria Cruziana, combining a range of excellent facilities and a very warm welcome.

World's largest waterlily blooms at Eden July 20 2001 The South African Victoria cruziana - is unfurling the petals of its first flower.

Victoria cruziana (Santa Cruz water lily, water platter, yrupe, synonym Victoria argentina Burmeist.)

Floating on the water are excellent specimens of the Victoria Amazonica and Victoria Cruziana lilies from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

Victoria cruziana was discovered in Bolivia on one of many expeditions through the country by Alcide d'Orbigny whose presence was sponsored by Andrés de Santa Cruz.

Its greenhouses contain plants from the Mediterranean, tropics, and subtropics including coffee, cocoa, bananas, sugarcane, rice, carnivorous plants, succulents, epiphytic bromeliads and orchids, and Victoria cruziana.

The botanists are attempting to create a hybrid of water lily species Victoria Cruziana and Victoria Amazonica and it is hoped the resulting plant will be the largest lily in the world.

Another species, Victoria cruziana, in the Parana-Paraguay basin, is only slightly smaller, with the underside of the leaves purple rather than the red of V. amazonica, and covered with a peachlike fuzz lacking in V. amazonica.

Winter Garden - A tropical forest including avocado tree, sugar cane, orange and pear trees, pineapples, cocoa trees and coffee plants, banana, date palms, vanilla vines, and pomegranates, as well as aquatic plants including Euryale ferox, Victoria cruziana, and Victoria regia.

Victoria cruziana (Santa Cruz water lily, water platter, yrupe, synonym Victoria argentina Burmeist.)

Barnacle Bills Another popular seafood restaurant along the Esplanade, Barnacle Bills specialising in seafood offering mouth watering platters served with the freshest garden salads.

Victoria cruziana (Santa Cruz water lily, water platter, yrupe, synonym Victoria argentina Burmeist.)