How strong is the strongest water lily? : NPR
Botanical gardens of tests from around the world that have the strongest lis cushion.
Scott Detrow, host:
It’s book for book the biggest strength test on water …
Vanessa Callahan: We first tried to test the weight of our water lilies several years ago, and we had heard of people standing on these Lys of Victoria water.
Detrow: … the weighing at the water calendar 2025.
Callahan: So I didn’t really believe that he could hold a lot, and I wanted to test it.
Detrow: Vanessa Callahan is with the botanical gardens of Denver, which welcome the weighing. What she says started was a kind of thought of thinking to see the amount of weight lilies transformed into a real competition in the world.
Callahan: Canada joined us. Australia, the United Kingdom, Spain, South Africa – a ton of countries joined us this year.
Detow: Forty-seven botanical gardens in nine countries, as well as the United States, has contributed with each participant adding weight in their own way.
(SoundBite of Mounting)
Unidentified person # 1: So today we will stack the most emblematic cheesecake in New York from Juniors in Brooklyn.
Unidentified person N ° 2: We have about 80 pounds of oranges of the beautiful citrus groves in the center of Florida.
Detow: from the dumbbells to the dumbbells, the competition was fierce.
Callahan: This year he seemed like the Missouri Botanical this year was preparing to be consecutive champions. They won last year and had an incredible weight, increasing by 40 pounds this year, until a new participant arises.
Brendan Huggins: We actually had one of our gardeners on it, and he is on the Lis-Pad for a while before he started to sink.
Detrow: Brendan Huggins and his team from Bok Tower Gardens in Florida tested their giant leaves with everything they had to win the 2025 prize. For the context, we are talking about a very large aquatic plant here, up to the size of a large car tire.
Huggins: So getting another pad until 183 was a lot of excitement.
Detrow: Complete the closest competition to a book has taken skills and patience.
Huggins: Put the effort to make these Victoria Cruzianas as large as they are and as beautiful as they are, it was right – it was really wonderful to see how much they had brought the possibility of having this payment and having so much weight on one of the pads.
Detrow: with a mixture of sandbags, coral stones and yes, bags of eight pounds of oranges from Florida, the Bok Tower gardens won the victory by stacking 183 pounds on their lis louder.
Huggins: The lilk pads that many people know, you know, you are used to this type of lily cushion the size of an iPhone on which a small ouaouche could sit in relation to that that a whole human can start.
Detow: Congratulations to all the competitors and the Bok Tower Gardens in Florida for winning the weighing at Waterlily 2025.
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