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Alisma
Also called Water Plantains, Waterplantain
Alisma is a genus of perennial aquatic plants, the water plantains, grown mainly in shallow water or wet soil at pond edges. The key to growing them is keeping roots wet or submerged in still, sunny water.
Alisma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae, members of which are commonly known as water-plantains. The genus consists of aquatic plants with leaves either floating or submerged, found in a variety of still water habitats around the world (nearly worldwide). The flowers are hermaphrodite, and are arranged in panicles, racemes, or umbels. Alisma flowers have six stamens, numerous free carpels in a single whorl, each with 1 ovule, and subventral styles. The fruit is an achene with a short beak.
The nineteenth century British art and social critic John Ruskin believed that the particular curve of the leaf-ribs of Alisma represented a model of 'divine proportion' and helped shape his theory of Gothic architecture.
Channelled Water Plantain · Narrowleaf water plantain · Lanceleaf water plantain · Alisma nanum · Asian Water Plantain · European water plantain · American water plantain · Northern water plantain · Baltic Water Plantain
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
