Water Caltrop Plant
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Water caltrop plant. In India it is cultivated in tanks lakes ponds river etc. It is native of Asia but has spread to many parts of the world in both temperate and tropical areas. It is a plant which floats in the water sprouts broad leaves rather than narrow spiked grass-like leaves and develops a shelled nut or corm that is the part harvested to be cooked.
Harvest is easy by just overturning the pans and collecting the nuts on the bottomI then put a few nuts back in the pans and a scoop of composted manure and wait till next fall. For its edible fruits. This plant can also be compared to Centaurea calcitrapa which is also sometimes referred to as the caltrop.
Their texture resemble chestnut a little. Water caltrops are aquatic plants that lodge in the soil of ponds and lakes and send up floating shoots topped with a rosette of leaves. Also called Water Caltrop --this is a diferent plant than the smooth Water Chestnut used in comon Chinese food recipies.
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A water plant with similarly shaped spiked seeds is. Europeans want to see more of it. The water chestnut or water caltrop is an aquatic plant and bears a rough thick-skinned fruit enclosing a single large white-coloured seed.
In its native range its rare because people ate most of it. This species goes by many names including buffalo nut bat nut devil pod and water caltrop. The nuts have a sharp taste even if theyre rich in nutrients.