Terrible water hyacinth.

Remember, my uncle's House there is a small pond, planted some water gourds, this title is Chinese name, reason is that branches of the plant looks like gourds. Occasionally, bails out pigs, today I became aware of this plant to China's cause.



water hyacinth bloom

In 1901, the Chinese lack of pig feed, and the introduction of water hyacinth, alien species, there is a very good survival advantage, provided that the right environment, and this plant environmental requirements are very low, into a new environment or you have no predators, naturally, began spreading her crazy.

Places such as ponds, lakes, small, not too large flow, especially wastewater into them, which contains a lot of nutrients such as n, p, especially for her, and she alone can exponential growth in a very short period of time. Seed of propagation capacity is weak, but she of creeping stem is can soon of propagation new plant, is vulnerable of creeping stem, disconnect Hou is new of plant of began, development of too fast, can edible of animal also not many, roots too developed, is life in surface of plant, on like formed has isolation layer as, block has water in of animal breathing, brings of consequences let people cannot imagine.

Block the waterway, affecting the shipping and excretion, restrictions on the movement of water, has had a bad smell, reducing the content of oxygen into the water, undermining ecological, for some insects, also provides a breeding ground for, also causes the PH of water reducing, produce massive amounts of carbon dioxide, water use less valuable, could not even use anymore.
This plant is not without any benefits, such as said above, can be used as food for pigs, planting in some small ponds, so as not to spread too much, and supplied pigs to eat, this is a good idea, the other is her beautiful flowers, flowering cycle longer, flowers are also very beautiful, potted plants, and available for viewing.

Enabling bad, is the same as the dual nature of the world, for domestic water hyacinth, the biggest enemy is probably the cold weather of winter, not growth around 10 degrees Celsius, and that, after all, only a small number of time, also need to be controlled at the time of planting.