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| Title: | THE FORSAKEN WATER CHESTNUT! |
| Authors: | Haridasan, V.K.
Ravi, G. |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: |
Singhara is known by various
names like ‘bull nut’, ‘European water chestnut’, ‘water chestnut’ and ‘water
nut’. T. natans L., an annual plant introduced from Asia, has become
abundant in north-eastern United
States where it creates a nuisance in lakes,
ponds, canals and other slow-moving water bodies. It grows best in shallow,
nutrient-rich lakes and rivers and is generally found in waters with a pH range
of 6.7 to 8.2. This obnoxious weed out-competes native plants for sunlight and
spreads either by the rosettes detaching from their stems and floating to
another area, or more often by the nuts being swept by currents or waves to
other parts of the water bodies.
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| Page(s): | 53-54 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(08) [August 2010]
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