Water chestnut(Trapa natans) is an anniversary amphibian plant with a abysmal ambagious axis that anchors into the mud and extends advancement to the apparent of the water. It appearance a bond of floating, fan-shaped leaves, anniversary blade accepting a hardly aggrandized blade (stem); the roots are fine, continued and profuse. The small, 4-petalled annual is white and the fruit is a ample nut with four aciculate spines.
The plant’s cord-like stems are absorptive and afloat and can ability lengths of up to 16 anxiety (although archetypal lengths tend to be in the six to eight bottom range). The stems are anchored to the bed of the baptize physique by abundant angled roots.