<p><b>Common name</b>: Water Hyacinth, Kabokkang (Manipuri), പോള peeaala (Malayalam)
</p><p><b>Botanical name</b>: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/tags/Eichhorniacrassipes/">Eichhornia crassipes</a></i> Kunth
- [ (ike-HORN-ee-uh) or (eek-HORN-ee-uh) named for Johann Albrecht Freidrich Eichhorn, 19th century Prussian politician; (KRASS-ih-peez) thick foot ]
<b>Synonyms</b>: <i>Eichhornia speciosa</i> Kunth • <i>Piaropus crassipes</i> (Mart.) Raf. 
<b>Family</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/tags/Pontederiaceae/">Pontederiaceae</a> (pickerelweed family)
- [ (pon-te-DARE-ee-uh-see-ay) named for Guilio Pontedera, 18th century professor of botany in Padua, Italy ]
</p><p><b>Origin</b>: South America
</p><p>Water hyacinth, is a distinctive floating plant that is suitable for indoor ponds and large open aquariums. It is also used as a summer plant in European garden ponds. Its size depends on the nutrients in the water and the light intensity.
</p><p>In open aquariums containing pure water it forms decorative miniature plants. It is now distributed all over the tropics and has become a menace, covering lake surfaces. In favourable conditions it forms an amazingly beautiful hyacinth-like flower.
</p><p><b>Courtesy</b>:
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Water%20Hyacinth.html">Flowers of India</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aquaplant.tamu.edu/database/floating_plants/water_hyacinth.htm">Aquaplant</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/eichhornia_crassipes.htm">Top Tropicals</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/661/index.html">Dave's Garden</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zipcodezoo.com/plants/e/eichhornia_crassipes.asp">ZipCode Zoo</a>
- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ecoport.org/ep?Plant=5622">EcoPort</a>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91314344@N00">Dinesh Valke</a> from Thane, India
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