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What are the special adaptive features of the water hyacinth?

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1. it's reproduce by runner (a type of asexual reproduction), and it's also reproduce by sexual reproduction, it's pollinating agent is water and it's aquatic plant
2. Eichornia commonly known as water hyacinth is a noxious aquatic weed in many parts of india it is a surface free floating kind of aquatic plant. the main adaptations of hyacinth are 1. it reproduces extensively by vegetative reproduction 2. its petiole has abundant aerenchymatous (air filled cavity containing cells) tissues which support it over the surface of water 3. it has aerenchymatous roots which mainly help in buoancy 4. since it has enough of water around it so it has very little development of xylem to pump water 5. the leaves have coating of wax over the entire surface to prevent from getting wet 6. it shows dense growth which prevents the entry of light below it, this suppresses the growth of underwater plants and reduces the competition for hyacinth. this act of hyacinth in due course of time can destroy all the aquatic life in water and this is otherwise called as death of lakes