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Friday, September 26, 2008

Caltrop, unveiled

Remember my call for the ID of this Mid-Autumn Festival thing that we eat? To my utmost surprise, Yx actually had the answer ready! (Don't get me wrong here, it's just that the subject matter is plants and I was honestly, pleasantly surprised) It's actually called water caltrop (Trapa sp.). Yay! She says it's her years of literature reviews finally paying off. =p

Here's a pic of the root itself (or is it a tuber?)

And the actual plant floating around in my DIY "pond"


The pond - gotta coin a funky name for it soon - is actually getting rather mucky with filamentous algae now. Which is odd - I'd have thought that the plants would compete favourably. I'll probably have a think about it. It's either algae-eating shrimp/snails or my favourite Triops. I just don't want anything eating the Utricularia.

Wenky
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