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Hydrilla

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Hydrilla (Waterthyme or hydrilla) is a genus of aquatic plant, usually treated as containing just one species, Hydrilla verticillata, though some botanists divide it into several species. [1]

52 relations: Aquatic plant, Biological pest control, Biomass, Bioremediation, Cadmium, California, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Ceratophyllum demersum, Ceratophyllum muricatum, Chromium, Connecticut, Egeria densa, Elodea canadensis, Endothall, Fishkeeping, Florida, Flower, Fluridone, Genus, Grass carp, Herbicide, Hydrellia pakistanae, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Invasive species, John Forbes Royle, Lead, Leaf, List of hyperaccumulators, Louis Claude Richard, Mercury (element), Miami, Monoculture, Naturalisation (biology), New South Wales, Northern Territory, Old World, Phytoremediation, Plant reproductive morphology, Potamogeton, Queensland, Salinity, Sri Lanka, Synonym, Tampa Bay, Texas, Tuber, Turion (botany), United States, United States National Agricultural Library, University of Florida, ..., Vallisneria americana, Vegetative reproduction. Expand index (2 more) »

Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).

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Biological pest control

Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests such as insects, mites, weeds and plant diseases using other organisms.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Bioremediation

Bioremediation is a process used to treat contaminated media, including water, soil and subsurface material, by altering environmental conditions to stimulate growth of microorganisms and degrade the target pollutants.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element with symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Linnaeus the Younger

Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger (20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist.

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Ceratophyllum demersum

Ceratophyllum demersum, commonly known as hornwort, rigid hornwort, coontail, or coon's tail, is a species of Ceratophyllum.

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Ceratophyllum muricatum

Ceratophyllum muricatum, commonly known as the prickly hornwort, is a species of Ceratophyllum native to much of Europe, Asia and Africa and been introduced elsewhere.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Egeria densa

Egeria densa, the large-flowered waterweed or Brazilian waterweed, is a species of Egeria native to warm temperate South America in southeastern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.

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Elodea canadensis

Elodea canadensis (American or Canadian waterweed or pondweed) is a perennial aquatic plant, or submergent macrophyte, native to most of North America.

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Endothall

Endothall (3,6-endoxohexahydrophthalic acid) is used as an herbicide for both terrestrial and aquatic plants.

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Fishkeeping

Fishkeeping is a popular hobby, practiced by aquarists, concerned with keeping fish in a home aquarium or garden pond.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Fluridone

Fluridone is an organic compound that is used as aquatic herbicide often used to control invasive plants.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Grass carp

The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is the species of fish with the largest reported production in aquaculture globally, over five million tonnes per year.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are chemical substances used to control unwanted plants.

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Hydrellia pakistanae

Hydrellia pakistanae is a species of flies in the shore fly family, Ephydridae.

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Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an agriculture, life science, pathogen, and invasive species research facility in Florida affiliated with University of Florida.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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John Forbes Royle

John Forbes Royle (10 May 1798 – 2 January 1858), British botanist and teacher of materia medica, was born in Kanpur (then Cawnpore) in 1798.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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List of hyperaccumulators

This article covers known hyperaccumulators, accumulators or species tolerant to the following: Aluminium (Al), Silver (Ag), Arsenic (As), Beryllium (Be), Chromium (Cr), Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Mercury (Hg), Molybdenum (Mo), Naphthalene, Lead (Pb), Selenium (Se) and Zinc (Zn).

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Louis Claude Richard

Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Monoculture

Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species, variety, or breed in a field or farming system at a time.

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Naturalisation (biology)

In biology, naturalisation (or naturalization) is any process by which a non-native organism or species spreads into the wild and its reproduction is sufficient to maintain its population.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Old World

The term "Old World" is used in the West to refer to Africa, Asia and Europe (Afro-Eurasia or the World Island), regarded collectively as the part of the world known to its population before contact with the Americas and Oceania (the "New World").

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Phytoremediation

Phytoremediation /ˌfaɪtəʊrɪˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən/ refers to the technologies that use living plants to clean up soil, air, and water contaminated with hazardous contaminants.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Potamogeton

Potamogeton is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity).

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

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Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

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Turion (botany)

A turion (from Latin turio meaning "shoot") is a type of bud that is capable of growing into a complete plant.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States National Agricultural Library

The United States National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a national library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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Vallisneria americana

Vallisneria americana, commonly called wild celery, water-celery, tape grass, or eelgrass, is a plant in the family Hydrocharitaceae, the "tape-grasses".

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Vegetative reproduction

Vegetative reproduction (also known as vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication or vegetative cloning) is any form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment of the parent plant or grows from a specialized reproductive structure.

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Esthwaite Waterweed, Esthwaite waterweed, Florida elodea, Hydrilla verticillata, Waterthyme.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrilla

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