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Trapa bicornis
About
Trapa natans, the water caltrop, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the genus Trapa, family Lythraceae, grown as a food crop. Other vernacular names include buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, ling nut, mustache nut, singhara nut, water nut, and water chestnut, though this last name is commonly applied to Eleocharis dulcis.
- Family
- Lythraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Trapa bicornis
- Slug
- trapa-bicornis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Genus
- Trapa
- Species
- bicornis
- Wikidata QID
- Q3332013
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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