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Parents take turns taking pictures of their babies, as they lay on the leafs of a water lily Victoria Amazonica, taken at the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, The Netherlands, on July 12. The university botanical garden invited parents to have their babies pictured on the giant leaves by a professional photographer. The enormous leaves of the Victoria amazonica can grow up to a diameter of almost 5 feet and can bear up to 88 lbs.
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Visitors look at the titan arum flower, the largest unbranched inflorescence flowering plant in the world, on April 23, 2011 in Basel, Switzerland. The flower, which smells of rotting flesh and is also known as a Corpse Flower, is attracting thousands of curious visitors to the Basel University's Botanical Garden. Originating from Sumatra's tropical rain forest and its humid climate, the flower rarely blossoms even in the wild. There has been only 134 recorded bloom from artificial cultivation and it is the first to blossom in Switzerland in 75 years.
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