Water chestnut is the fruit of aquatic plant water chestnut. When immature, the skin color is purple and the flesh color is white. Its leaves are wide diamonds, its flowers are white and have four petals. It likes to grow in a warm climate. When planting, it can be planted in ponds, swamps and other places with sufficient water.

Water chestnut, also known as water chestnut, water chestnut and water chestnut, is a kind of water chestnut. Water chestnut is rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and trace elements.

Water chestnut grows in the lake and matures around August every year. The rattan of water chestnut has green leaves, and the shape of the leaves is diamond, so the fruit is called water chestnut. The stems are purplish red and the flowers are bright yellow, also known as "peanuts in water". The fruit "water chestnut" is a kind of nut, which hangs in the water under dense leaves and must be picked up and turned over to see it.

Morphological characteristics of water chestnut

Water chestnut, also called water chestnut. The two horns are diamonds, shaped like horns. Triangle and four corners are cockroaches. Growing in a lake. Horseshoe grows most easily when it falls in mud. There are Yeling and Jialing, both born in March, which have been passed down for a long time. The leaves floating on the water are flat, sharp and very smooth, and there are stems below. Small white flowers bloom in May and June, open at night, close during the day and move with the month.

There are several kinds of fruits: hornless, double-angled, triangular and four-angled. There are thorns on the corners, which are thin and brittle and grow on the corners. Aquatic plants. Annual floating or semi-erect aquatic plants.

Root type II: wire-shaped, embedded in sediment, assimilated roots, pinnately split, filiform lobes, light green or dark reddish brown. The stem is cylindrical, slender or stubby. Leaf type 2: floating leaves alternate and gather at the tip of the stem, forming a rosette diamond on the water surface.

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