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Water Chestnut is a rooted aquatic plant that can dominate ponds, shallow lakes, and rivers. A single plant can produce multiple floating rosettes of leaves that grow in thick colonies, displacing native vegetation and limiting recreation and navigation. Each plant can produce up to 20 nuts, also called drupes, which have four sharp spines and can remain viable for 9 years or more in the sediment.

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