Water hyacinth is a kind of plants which grow widely in rivers, ponds and lakes. It has various uses. Mainly, this is used as food of cattle. It has beautiful flowers as well. I just love this flower.
You can have some more information about water hyacinth from Wikipedia-
Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic plant (or hydrophyte) native to tropical and sub-tropical South America. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm across on a stem which is floating by means of buoyant bulb like nodules at its base above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. An erect stalk supports a single spike of 8–15 conspicuously attractive flowers, mostly lavender to pink in colour with six petals.
Yesterday I took some pictures of this flower. Sharing with you all. Hope you will enjoy.
All the pictures were captured using my iPhone 6+
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