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Photo: Water Hyacinth Flower
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This is a stock photo of a water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes. Water hyacinths are pretty but extremeley invasive water plants common to North America, Asia, Australia and Africa. They provide prime habitat for mosquitoes and a species of snail that hosts a parasitic flatworm that infects people in developing countries with the disease Schistosomiasis. Original Stock Photography by Angela Pratt.
Image Number: 0082-0609-1622-1226
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