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Old 18-07-2007, 02:48 PM posted to alt.binaries.photos.original,alt.binaries.pictures.gardens
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Default Unknown flower growing on fishpond

Omelet wrote:
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"Padraig" wrote:

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Water Hyacinth.

They are illegal to grow here.
Unfortunately. :-(



Yes, because they are a foreign species, and have no natural limiter
here. We tend to focus on the ecological damage from foreign animal
species and forget that plants can be as bad and worse. See kudzu, which
was originally imported as an erosion cure.



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