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Aquatic Nuisance
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Mike Hook
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INFORMATION!
WATER
CHESTNUT
Trapa natans
Water chestnut is an emersed or
floating plant. The lower leaves are submersed and are sessile,
alternate, and pinnatified (cleft). The upper or floating leaves are
diamond shaped with outer dentate (marginal teeth pointing out) leaf
margins. The flower of Trapa natans has 4 white petals with 4 green
sepals. The fruit of this plant is a nut enclosed in a thorny calyx
which has 4 sharp spines.
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