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Water Hyacinth

Eichhornia crassipes

Description:

Eichhornia crassipes, commonly known as (common) water hyacinth. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm across, and float above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. An erect stalk supports a single spike of 8-15 conspicuously attractive flowers, mostly lavender to pink in colour with six petals. One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, which eventually form daughter plants. Each plant can produce thousands of seeds each year, and these seeds can remain viable for more than 28 years.[

Habitat:

Its habitat ranges from tropical desert to subtropical or warm temperate desert to rainforest zones.

Notes:

This morning only I notice this plant was blooming flower. Pretty.

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BenKula
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BenKula

Perak, Malaysia

Spotted on Mar 4, 2014
Submitted on Mar 4, 2014

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