Aquatics

Quite simply, aquatics are plants which grow in, live in, or live on the water.  In most cases, this means staning water which is at or above the level of the soil surface and can include ponds, shallow lakes, marshes, ditches, reservoirs, swamps, bogs, and canals.  They can grow in flowing water too i.e. streams, rivers and springs, but this is less common. These plants have adapted specifically to grow in these conditions and would not survive any other way. Most aquatic plants occur in the kingdoms Plantae and Protista.

Many aquatic plants create large amounts of oxygen therefore are grown by aquarium owners to help their fish.  Alas they can also be very invasive as they reproduce vegetatively (without seeds or spores) from fragments which have broken off.

Water growing plants are very important to humans with well documented historical links to Egyptian times when species of Nymphaeaceae (Water lillies) were harvested for food.  The lillies were dried and their seeds ground to make flour whilst other parts of the plants were eaten raw.  They are still cultivated for their fruits, seed and starch rich rhizomes to this day.  Generally, these species have large flat leaves which enable them to float on or near the water surface.

Reeds can grow very tall making them an ideal material for fencing, thatching, pulping into paper and card, fiberboard and insulation.

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Aquatics
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