Salvinia

Examples

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• To perform tests of water quality, entomologist Philip Tipping collects water samples from a tank infested with giant and common salvinia.

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• At other sites, growth was so dense that some of the salvinia, starved of nitrogen and other nutrients, turned brown.

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• In some places, giant salvinia was a healthy green.

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• Common salvinia is an earlier invader that is now part of the landscape, according to Ted D. Center.

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• Giant salvinia, or Salvinia molesta, is a bother to humans as well.

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• Everitt found that if the salvinia plants were healthy, their green light reflectance could be easily distinguished from that of other plants.

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• ARS researchers were the first in the United States to use a beneficial insect to attack salvinia.

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• Everitt began his salvinia research by measuring the light reflectance of giant salvinia and other nearby aquatic plants.

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• Areas with healthy green salvinia foliage (arrow 1) are easily distinguished from those with dying foliage (arrow 2).

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• Giant salvinia is among the invasive species profiled in a comprehensive database maintained by the ARS National Agricultural Library.

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Compounds

S

Salvinia auriculata

• Specialized

9.9

A floating water fern from tropical Americas that forms dense mats on ponds

S

Salvinia rotundifolia

• Specialized

9.9

A floating fern with round leaves that forms dense mats in calm freshwater

Surface Forms

Etymology