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LATTICE LEAF PLANT

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LATTICE

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LEAF PLANT  , in
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botany, the
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common name for Ouvirandra fenestralis, an aquatic monocotyledonous plant belonging to the small natural
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order Aponogetonaceae and a native of
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Madagascar . It has a singular
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appearance from the structure of the leaves, which are oblong in shape, from 6 to 18 in.
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long and from 2 to 4 in. broad; they spread horizontally beneath the
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surface of the
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water, and are reduced to little more than a lattice-like network of
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veins . The tuberculate roots are edible . The plant is grown in cultivation as a
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stove-aquatic .

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