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Soaking the seeds in cold water for 6–12 hours before placing them in cold stratification can cut down on the amount of time needed for stratification, as the seed needs to absorb some moisture to enable the chemical changes that take place. [citation needed]
Eleocharis dulcis, the Chinese water chestnut or water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge native to Asia, tropical Africa, and Oceania. It is grown in many countries for its edible corms , but if eaten uncooked, the surface of the plants may transmit fasciolopsiasis .
The plants of a layer, especially with regard to their way of life and correspondingly similar root distribution interact closely and compete strongly for space, light, water and nutrients. The stratification of a plant community is the result of long selection and adaptation processes. Through the formation of different layers a given habitat ...
Stratification in water is the formation in a body of water of relatively distinct and stable layers by density. It occurs in all water bodies where there is stable density variation with depth. Stratification is a barrier to the vertical mixing of water, which affects the exchange of heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients. [1]
The plant spreads by the rosettes and fruits detaching from the stem and floating to another area on currents or by fruits clinging to objects, and animals. The unrelated Eleocharis dulcis is also called a water chestnut. [2] It is an aquatic plant, a sedge, whose round, crisp-fleshed corms are common in Chinese food.
Water chestnut may refer to either of two plants, both used in Chinese cuisine: Eleocharis dulcis , or Chinese water chestnut, is eaten for its crisp corm Water caltrop , Trapa natans , is eaten for its starchy seed
Nurse grafting of Quercus rubra. Nurse grafting is a method of plant propagation that is used for hard-to-root plant material. If a desirable selection cannot be grown from seed (because a seed-grown plant will be genetically different from the parent), it must be propagated asexually in order to be genetically identical to the parent.
Castanospermum is a monotypic genus in the legume family Fabaceae.The sole species is Castanospermum australe, commonly known as Moreton Bay chestnut or black bean, [1] [6] [7] which is native to rainforested areas on the east coast of Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, and to the southwest Pacific islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia [3] [8]