Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Spotting

Description:

large water-dwelling plant, leaves feel and look a bit like plastic

Habitat:

small 'pond' of about 7 to 8" deep, tropical climate

1 Species ID Suggestions

Druenn
Druenn 6 years ago
Pickerelweed
Pontederia cordata Pontederia cordata - Wikipedia


Sign in to suggest organism ID

4 Comments

maplemoth662
maplemoth662 6 years ago

Pretty flowers....

JaniekevanDijk
JaniekevanDijk 6 years ago

SukanyaDatta, thanks for your suggestion, but I dont think this is the one: the flower petals of this spotting are way thicker than the ones of Eichornia crassipes. also, they lack the distinct, brigt yellow/orange spot.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 6 years ago

Water hyacinth
Eichhornia crassipes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichhornia...

JaniekevanDijk
JaniekevanDijk 6 years ago

GCDruenn, thanks for the ID, but I'm not quite sure about it

JaniekevanDijk
Spotted by
JaniekevanDijk

Papua, Indonesia

Spotted on May 20, 2017
Submitted on May 25, 2017

Spotted for Mission

Nearby Spottings

Yellow velvetleaf Black Stink Bug - beetle mimic Spotting Spotting
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team