botanyshitposts:

tonight at the botany conference i was talking to this other undergrad i met whos super into aquatic plants and he was like ‘o have you ever seen the aquatic plant that looks like a net?? the managascar lace plant???’ and i was like ‘wait what the fuck what???’ and i looked it up and 

the scientific name is Aponogeton madagascariensis. it has problems with algae growing over the gaps and blocking the actual photosynthic ‘netting’ tissue, which like…..i mean….i can see why like holy shit…..im honestly so jarred by this like that isn’t allowed! stop doing that!