Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-441.11.01
Azolla filiculoides
English: Mosquito fern.
Region: Southeast Asia.
Ecology: blue-green algae, Anabaena azollae, is always found in pockets on the leaves of Azolla and helps convert nitrogen to a form usable by other plants, thus greatly increasing the productivity of rice paddies where the fern occurs.
Botany
Fern; minute; aquatic.