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SHOT 5/21/2007 and 5/22/2007 - Images of gunnera manicata in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Vancouver's first park and one of the city's main tourist attractions, Stanley Park is an evergreen oasis of 1,000 acres very close to downtown Vancouver. Gunnera manicata, native to the Serra do Mar mountains of southeastern Brazil, is perhaps the largest species, with leaves typically 1.5-2 m (5-6 ft) wide, but exceptionally long, up to 3.4 m (11 ft), borne on thick, succulent leaf stalks (petioles) up to 2.5 m (8 ft) long. It germinates best in very moist, but not wet, conditions and temperatures of 22 to 29 °C..(Photo by Marc Piscotty © 2007)
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