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Post by sarracenialover on Feb 8, 2008 1:07:29 GMT
Does anyone who lives in the Bay Area Of Cal know a pond that has these such plants?
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Post by sarracenialover on Feb 12, 2008 0:29:16 GMT
ok , I get it, noone wants to reply.
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Post by pinglover on Feb 14, 2008 14:42:27 GMT
Water Hyacinth = Eichhornia crassipes The plant is native to Brazil. It might be a good idea to begin familiarizing yourself with the scientific names of plants that interest you. Searches for information work so much better when one steers clear of using common names. Eichhornia crassipes is a highly invasive species that has naturalized in California so it shouldn't be all that difficult to locate. Here is the link to the USDA Plants Profile for the species and if you click on your state, a map will be brought up that will show you all the counties in which this species is documented as occurring- plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=EICR An excerpt from this site- www.cal-ipc.org/ip/management/ipcw/pages/detailreport.cfm@usernumber=45&surveynumber=182.phpNice photos at this site of the plant to better enable you to identify it- plants.ifas.ufl.edu/seagrant/eiccra2.htmlBeautiful plant... in its natural range however it is one of the world's worst weeds with control, management, and eradication costing us all billions of dollars. The plant is prohibited in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas although I suspect other states will prohibit this species in the future. That being said, it is documented as having naturalized in the Bay Area of CA so I suspect if you contact your DNR they should be able to direct you to an exact location. Will you be volunteering to help manually eradicate this beast?
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Post by Randy Zerr on May 1, 2008 5:13:44 GMT
These are one of the worst invasive aquatic plants in the US. Hopefully people will stop trying to grow it as it is seemingly impossible to keep under control. It grows very fast. Uncontrolled, the seeds move downstream. Water birds can easily carry pieces of the plant or seeds and deposit them in other waterways and the plants spread like wildfire here in the South. I've seen entire ponds and creeks choked full of them so thick that you can't even see the water. A few years ago it appeared in one of the swamps on Eglin Air Force Base reservation that is also habitat to at least 4 species of Utricularia including an interesting large variety of U. purpurea. I shot an email out to the conservation authorities that control the natural resources and they came out and raked out the infestation. Hopefully they got it all out. I haven't seen any in a year. At least not near the roadway. My opinion is unless you plan on growing it in a small garden fountain or greenhouse aquatic scene, don't mess with it.
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