Indian water chestnuts, On the way to Bharatpur, India


The water caltrop, water chestnut, buffalo nut, bat nut, devil pod, Singhara. The species are floating annual aquatic plants, growing in slow-moving water up to 5 meters deep, native to warm temperate parts of Eurasia and Africa. They bear ornately shaped fruits that resemble the head of a bull, each fruit containing a single very large starchy seed.


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Keywords: aqueous, buffalo, caltrop, chestnut, edible, fruit, india, nut, singhara, starch, starchy, walter, water