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Experts at London's Kew Gardens on Monday revealed they have discovered the first new giant waterlily species since the mid-19th century – after it was initially mistaken for another.  Specimens of the new species had lain undiscovered at the botanical garden for 177 years and in the National Herbarium of Bolivia for 34 years.It had been thought they were from the Victoria amazonica, one of the two known varieties of giant waterlilies whose genus was named after Queen Victoria in 1852.But their true identity was revealed…