Water Chestnut (Trapa)
Water plants with nut-like seeds used as food in the countries where they grow. T.
Water chestnut features a rosette of floating, fan-shaped leaves, each leaf having a slightly inflated petiole (stem); the roots are fine, long and profuse; the small 4-petalled flower is white; the fruit is a large nut having 4 sharp spines.
Water Chestnut, Bull Nut, Bull Nut (Usa), Bull-Nut, European Water Chestnut, Jesuit´s Nut, Jesuits´ Nut, Ling Nut, Water Caltrop, Water Chestnut, Water Nut, Water Nut, Water-Chestnut
Common Names in Finnish:
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The water chestnut tree can grow to large proportions like this individual at Miami's Fairchild Tropical Gardens.
Description ...
Common name(s): Water chestnut, Guiana chestnut, Malabar chestnut, Money tree
The genus Pachira has 24 species from the wetlands in Central America (Mexico to Brazil).
Next time you savor Chinese water chestnuts, give a nod to Eleocharis dulcis -- you are eating the crunchy tubers of a humble grass-like rush. Raised like rice in flooded fields, their reedy stems are sometimes woven into baskets, mats and hats.
The Oriental water chestnut (Eleocharis tuberosa) is cultivated extensively among the Chinese for its edible tubers.
The Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, is cultivated for its edible tubers, as is the chufa or earth-almond, Cyperus esculentus var. sativus. The stems of Egyptian paper-reed or papyrus, C.
Guiana Chestnut
Malabar Chestnut
Saba Nut
Water Chestnut
Although Pachiras can get rather large in size, most gardeners are familiar with them as the small potted plants with interweaved stems and attractive leaves.
Bur oak, English oak, swamp chestnut (Quercus macrocarpa, Quercus robur, Quercus michauxii)
Chestnut, European chestnut (Castanea sativa)
Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
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Previous Relationships. Some morphologically distinctive taxa until recently separated as their own families - Trapaceae (water chestnut), Sonneratiaceae, Punicaceae (pomegranate) - nestle firmly within Lythraceae.
Water chestnut (Trapa natans)
Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)
Water primrose (Ludwigia uruguayensis)
Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
Wetland nightshade (Solanum tampicense) ...
Finally, if you are lucky enough to be able to find them or obtain a few seeds of the Water Chestnut, Trapa nutans, a European native naturalized to a limited extent in North America, you can enjoy the fruits raw or roasted.
water chestnut Trapa natans
water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes
water pennywort Hydrocotyle verticillata
water- speedwell Veronica anagallis-aquatica
water wattle; wirilda Acacia retinodes
water yam; white yam Dioscorea alata ...
 See also: Chestnut, Grass, May, Sedge, Cyperus
  
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