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Posted by Jack Schmidling on July 16, 2008, 10:37 am
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I am delighted to report that ducks really do eat Duckweed. These guys
remind me of the ADM TV commercials with rows of tandem combines
cutting through endless fields of wheat (Triticum L.)
js
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Posted by Rick on July 16, 2008, 10:45 am
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> I am delighted to report that ducks really do eat Duckweed. These guys
> remind me of the ADM TV commercials with rows of tandem combines
>
> js
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When I was an undergraduate at Oregon State I worked for the ARS Plant
Materials Center and they grew among other things Duckweed to seed out
for waterfowl.
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Posted by Jack Schmidling on July 16, 2008, 2:29 pm
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> When I was an undergraduate at Oregon State I worked for the ARS Plant
> Materials Center and they grew among other things Duckweed to seed out
> for waterfowl.
It's nice to know that a common name means something. In this case,
well named.
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Posted by jadel on July 18, 2008, 6:26 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Rick wrote:
> > When I was an undergraduate at Oregon State I worked for the ARS Plant
> > Materials Center and they grew among other things Duckweed to seed out
> > for waterfowl.
>
> It's nice to know that a common name means something. =A0In this case,
> well named.
Richard Mabey's -Flora Britannica- has an interesting entry for
duckweed (Lemna L.) In some parts of England it is personified as ' Jenny
Greenteeth," a hag who lures children to death by drowning by covering
the surface of ponds so thickly they appear to be solid ground.
J. Del Col
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Posted by Ray on July 19, 2008, 3:09 pm
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> Richard Mabey's -Flora Britannica- has an interesting entry for
> Greenteeth," a hag who lures children to death by drowning by
> covering the surface of ponds so thickly they appear to be solid
> ground.
My dog fell for that (literally) a few years ago. We were walking
along a sluggish river that was completely covered with duckweed. The
dog saw something on a small island and went bounding toward it. Was
she ever surprised when she discovered the green area was water and not
land. Jenny Greenteeth had chosen a faulty spot for her trap, as the
water was only a foot or so deep.
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