"If it rains/ floods, plant bits and seeds can get washed in to local rivers and ponds and spread." Gardener spurs warnings ...

Water hyacinths’ rapid growth and reproduction ... It easily overwhelms small ponds, leading to desperate pond owners ...

However, this bright green denizen of ponds across Asia teams ... Aquatic bioremediation by water hyacinth has also been tried, but when the plant dies it decays to become its own sludgy pollutant.

Use aquatic plant biomass as a valuable resource, and solve ecosystem, social, and health problems all at once Development of technologies for converting water hyacinth to energy, nutrients and ...

Aquatic plant treatment systems consist of one or more shallow ponds in which one or more species of tolerant vascular plants ... Floating aquatic plants. The most common plants include water hyacinth ...

“Artisans will collect hyacinth from ponds, agriculture canals, lakes and other water bodies. The fibrous stalks of the plant are then sun-dried to make them suitable for weaving. Once ...