Re: Lemna and other duckweeds

In a message dated 6/23/00 11:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
deanslgr@juno.com writes:

<< I've carefully
 kept Wolffia going for years in cultivation but, despite rapid vegetative
 reproduction, I just can't imagine how this plant survives in the wild! >>

Where have you seen it in the wild?  The larger genus, Lemna, I tend to see
in very shallow waters, even ephemeral puddles, where there are no larger
plants nor fish.  Never having seen Wolffia, I can only speculate, but I
suspect is is an extreme specialist, surviving in places no competitior can
reach.

Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
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