A visitor stands on the Lotus Victoria leaf in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Southwest China's Yunnan province. (Photo: chinadaily.com.cn)

A Lotus Victoria, named after the British Queen Victoria, has become a tourist attraction with tens of thousands of visits in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Lotus Victoria, according to the garden in Southwest China's Yunnan province, was introduced in 1963.