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Cyperaceae
Chinese water chestnut
Eleocharis dulcis
Also known as Water chestnut, Waternut, Matai, Eleocharis tuberosa
Tropical Plants · Edibles & Herbs · Native Plants · Aquatic · Edible Corm · Water Plant · Tropical · Pond Garden · Asian Vegetable · Bog Plant · Culinary · Water Garden · Root Vegetable
Chinese water chestnut is an aquatic plant that must be grown in consistently waterlogged or flooded conditions, making it ideal for pond margins, bog gardens, or containers filled with water. Plant corms in full sun to partial shade in rich, loamy soil submerged under 2-4 inches of water, and allow plenty of warm growing season time before harvesting corms in autumn. This plant requires a tropical or warm temperate climate and is best grown as an annual in cooler regions.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Maintain 2-4 inches of standing water over the root zone throughout the growing season · Continuously — keep in standing water or consistently waterlogged conditions
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 18 in
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Andaman Is., Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast
- Attracts
- Bees, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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