Some are sturdy enough to support the weight of a small child—a concept that a new paper in Science Advances illustrates literally, with a photo of a tot curled up on a colossal leaf.

The lily pads have taken over ... Copy Desk chief before becoming the first full-time garden editor for the paper in 1988. She writes a weekly garden Q&A and feature stories.

LONDON — What could be a better memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, than a pod of faintly psychedelic giant lily pads? Perhaps a big bronze tree or a recording of ...

The concept is sometimes described as "lily pads." Instead of the Cold War idea of basing large ... one of the neo-conservative thinkers behind US foreign policy, produced a Pentagon paper called ...

lily pads held the most weight of any lily pads in the world. The garden's initial participation in the weigh-off went so much better than expected that garden officials ran out of weights to put ...

ST. LOUIS — A worldwide botanical garden contest officially crowned Missouri as the winner on Tuesday. The results of the international "water lily weigh-off" found the Missouri Botanical Garden ...