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There are numerous kinds of aquatic plants that can transform the ordinary look of your garden. It is good to have a stretch of water body at the middle of your garden. Water garden plants or aquatic plants elevate the look of a garden. Different types of flowering aquatic plants add color to the pond inside or outside your house. Moreover the wide leaves of the water plants are spread over the surface of water and those control the temperature of water. Theydeserveit gives important information regarding the biological properties of aquatic plants.
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Living on or under the surface of water demands several different special adaptations. Aquatic plants are called the hydrophytes. From time immemorial aquatic plants have been going through those physical changes. These plants can grow either in water or in permanently saturated soil. Ferns and angiosperms are aquatic vascular plants. Seaweeds are never vascular plants. Those are multicellular marine algae and therefore can not exactly be regarded as aquatic plants.
Theydeserveit throws light on the common characteristics of Hydrophytes.
The major function of cuticle layer on the plant is to prevent evaporation. That is why most of the hydrophytes do not even have cuticles, because they do not need to think about evaporation. The stomata of aquatic plants are opened most of the time in order to allow oxygen dissolved in water to get into the body of the plant. The guard cells round the stomata are almost inactive. Large flat leaves of the surface plants help in flotation.
Air sacs are there in the body of these plants, which help in floating on water.
Aquatic plants have smaller roots as these roots hardly have to serve as the pump to collect water from soil and transfer that to leaves. Leaves of these plants can extract water directly. The feathery roots are hardly strong enough to hold the plant. Actually these aquatic plants float in a way that their roots need not to support them. These roots are designed in a way that they can extract oxygen.
Some of the species of buttercup float in water submerged. The flowers are pushed above water by their stems. The leaves and roots of these plants are long, thin and almost hair-like. This makes the plant more buoyant. The wide and flat leaves of water lilies distribute the weight of the plant over a large area on the surface of water helping to float on the surface of water.
Apart from the decorating purpose aquatic plants also serve as the oxygen provider into water. If you are planning for an open air aquarium just put some aquatic plants on the water of the tank meant for fish or some other aquatic creatures. These aquatic plants oxygenate the water and help the aquatic creatures to breathe.
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