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Water wisteria
Hygrophila difformis
About
Hygrophila difformis, commonly known as water wisteria (though it is not closely related to true wisteria), is an aquatic plant in the acanthus family. It is found in marshy habitats on the Indian subcontinent in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal. It grows to a height of 20 to 50 cm with a width of 15 to 25 cm.
- Family
- Acanthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Hygrophila difformis
- Slug
- hygrophila-difformis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Acanthaceae
- Genus
- Hygrophila
- Species
- difformis
- Wikidata QID
- Q1431832
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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