The Victoria ‘Dreamer,’ a new species of Victoria water lily cultivated in southwest China's Yunnan province, was recently approved by an international authority as a new variety.
Photo shows the Victoria ‘Dreamer,’ a new water lily species cultivated in southwest China's Yunnan province. (Photo/Yunnan Daily)
The Victoria ‘Dreamer,’ which was bred by senior experimentalist Wu Fuchuan and engineer Liu Meng with the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is the first water lily cultivar certified by an international authority.
The cultivation of this new variety started in 2018. Seeds of the Victoria amazonica were utilized for the process of inducing mutations.
The leaves of this new variety are copper on both sides. When temperatures are low during the wintertime, the flower’s color will change slowly into red, with a beautiful bichromatic transition able to be observed. (People's Daily Online)
Chinese scientists have found a new plant species of Oreocharis in southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
New beetle species and genus from China was reared from legumes. Observed to eat the seeds, it belongs to a tribe, whose members are known to roll hardwood leaves to make nests. The females deposit their eggs in them, so that once hatched, the larvae eat the rolls. This species seems to have still not developed this evolutionary ability and is considered very primitive in its group.
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