26 Oct Water Hyacinth: A Serious Threat to Agriculture
जलकुंभी: कृषि के लिए एक गंभीर खतरा Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a free floating perennial aquatic plant, native to South America. Water hyacinth is a popular water garden plant because of the beauty of its large, purple to violet flowers and its interesting floating vegetation. Many plant nurseries and big box stores sell it as an ornamental pond plant. Later it was seen that the plant is basically a very aggressive invader which can form thick mats on water surface. Gradually, it is known that among the aquatic plants, water hyacinth is the worst aquatic plant in the world. It becomes a fierce competition with other micro flora and fauna in the...