water lettuce

plant
Also known as: Nile cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, water cabbage

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African vegetation

  • Africa
    In Africa: Sudd

    …other water plants—including the floating Nile cabbage (Pistia stratiotes)—form masses of waterlogged plant material that are largely unproductive and are a nuisance to fishing and navigation. Pistia has become an unwelcome invader of Lake Kariba, the body of water formed by the impounding (1959) of the Zambezi River in the…

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