Re: [APD] WATER HYACINTH

["drajitathale" <drajitathale at hclinfinet_com>]

Actually, what happened was that, I was scouting for terrestrial plants for
my garden in a plant nursery, and I just saw a green plant with large leaves
floating in water in an earthen pot.
So I just asked the nursery person about what it was.
He just said it is a kind of water lily, which gives flowers.
So, just out of curiosity, I bought it and put it first- in my outdoor
aquarium and then as the plant is quite large, later- in a large
earthen pot, cemented inside.
I was just wondering what type of plant it is and suddenly one fine morning
(about 7days after I had got it), there was a bunch of really beautiful
violet flowers !.
I was really surprised, and by chance came across similar picture in a
garden manual to realise that it was water hyacinth.
I had heard it is a dangerous weed and now all your posts confirm it.
Now I will be very very careful about its disposal.
I also read that in Kerala(a South Indian state), many waterways have been
clogged and rendered useless by this plant.

ajit
India.


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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:53:09 -0600
> From: urville <urville at peoplepc_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] WATER HYACINTH
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> I have a while back. It's a really easy plant to grow surface floating
> plant. It sucks up nutrients like crazy. In fact many states have
> delared it an invasive weed. I guess it got into some local water
> systems and literally took over... somewhere I saw a photo of a body of
> water here in the US completely covered in it.
> Ian
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> drajitathale wrote:
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> >Has anybody tried water hyacinth in aquarium
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> >ajit
> >INDIA.
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> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:52:50 -0700
> From: Liz Wilhite <satirica at gmail_com>
> Subject: Re: [APD] WATER HYACINTH
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> On 9/7/05, drajitathale <drajitathale at hclinfinet_com> wrote:
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> > Has anybody tried water hyacinth in aquarium
> >
> > ajit
> > INDIA.
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>  Hi Ajit,
>  DId I read that you have your aquaria outdoors? If so then water hyacinth
> will grow quite well for you. The standard warning about water hyacinth is
> pretty important -- just make sure that it can't get into any lake, river,
> stream or other body of water. I don't know if it is loose in India but it
> is a nightmare in the southeastern US and is being harvested out of Lake
> Victoria as well.. Rampant growth is a hallmark -- I have seen whole
plants
> grow from a 5 cm leaf fragment. As long as you are very careful it's a
great
> plant to grow. Very heavy feeder that seems to relish warm water and the
> flowers are stunningly beautiful.
>  Liz
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