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“Flower Child”
Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 2 September 2010 5:47 AM
She really is a flower child. There’s a great photo in the New York Daily News this morning of a nine-week-old baby perched on a leaf. But this isn’t just any old leaf. Called the Victoria Amazonica, the plant takes two days to blossom and has a diameter of ten feet. The one in the photo resides at a zoo in Holland. Babies who weigh less than 33 pounds can have their picture taken atop the giant leaf.
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