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Aponogeton lakhonensis is a tuberous aquatic plant from tropical and subtropical Asia, growing in ricefields, ponds and slow streams, with a single yellow-flowered spike held above the water. It is grown mainly in ponds and aquaria, and needs a clear dormant period in the tuber's life cycle to thrive.
Aponogeton lakhonensis is a species of an aquatic plant in the Aponogetonaceae family. This species with a yellow-flowered single spike rising above the water, is found in ricefields, ponds and slow-moving streams of tropical and sub-tropical Asia. An outlier population occurs in Sulawesi, the main area of occurrence is from Thailand to China and Assam in India. It is more closely related to tropical Australian species of Aponogeton than it is to other Southeast Asian species. In Thailand the whole plant is eaten is salads, whereas Cambodians prefer the leaves alone served with fish sauce.
This species is native to an area from Southeast Asia to China and Assam, and also in Sulawesi. Countries and regions in which it occurs indigenously are: Indonesia (Sulawesi); Thailand; Cambodia; China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang {Longquan}); Taiwan; Laos; Myanmar; and India (Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland).
Near the city of Lampang, Thailand, the whole plant is eaten in salads.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aponogeton lakhonensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
