Cape Pond-weed.
A Garden Corner.
TJNDER THE NAME of Cape Pond-weed we have a plant familiar to visitors to the large pond in the Domain where it is flourishing. It carries the name Aponogetum distachyum . and comes from Cape Colony. It can easily be sorted out on the water by its circles of floating leaves and showy white flowers with their numerous black anthers. The leaves are long and narrow, say, about 10 x 2 inches, attached to the plant by a thin stem at one end. Amongst the leaves may be seen floating on the surface the curious and attractive flowers. As soon as the flowers go over, a change may be noticed in them, for they retain their shape but swell and assume a green tint as the seeds mature. As full maturity is reached the seed heads sink to the mud beneath. The next course may be seen by the advent of numerous young plants around the parent one. With the exception of the Nympheas, this is as good a water plant as we can grow. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 3 February 1934, Page 10
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