Gunnera magnifica
Gunnera magnifica, commonly called hoja de pantano, is a large herbaceous shrub or tree-like plant native to the montane rainforests of the Colombian Andes in Caldas Province. It can grow as tall as. The lower stem is decumbent and rhizomatous, while the upper stem curves upright and palm-like. This pachycaul stem is up to thick. At the top is a rosette of huge leaves, the blade, or lamina of which is long by up to in across. The stalk, or petiole is up to in length and in thickness. These huge leaves emerge from a bud up to long by up to wide; the largest leaf bud of any known plant. The panicle of red, dimerous flowers, panicle and pedicel combined, is up to in height. The bud scales covering the terminal bud are long, slender, branched with filamentous side branches, long wide, the largest of any known plant.