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A free-floating aquatic plant growing in deep or shallow water and in mud.
Spreads vegetatively by fragmentation.
One plant in one season can spread to occupy about 300 hectares.
Easily recongised by its bright shiny, pale-green fleshy leaves on swollen bladder-like stems.
Attractive mauve flowers appear in summer and its seeds may lie dormant for many years before genrminating the plant threatens water use
Generally infestations may make water unfit for domestic and stock use.
Choke irrigation systems, block drainage lines, hinder navigation and seriously interfere with wildlife.
