Watermeal is Earth’s smallest flowering plant found floating in pinhead-sized clumps. It could have a big impact on space exploration, providing food and oxygen for future astronauts.

Watermeal, even smaller than the more well-known duckweed, is the tiniest flowering plant on Earth. Like duckweed, watermeal is an aquatic plant found in Thailand and other parts of Asia.

Is watermeal a food for the future? Gloucester County Nature ... they have recently been placed in the same plant family — the Arums — as such showy plants as skunk cabbage and jack in the ...

Our most common species, Brazilian watermeal (Wolffia brasiliensis) grows to be only about quarter of an inch long but can rapidly cover a pond by budding and growing new plants in four days or less.

Duckweed and watermeal are two free-floating plants that can wreak havoc on a pond. These two plants are extremely small (duckweed is 1/8 to ¼ inch in diameter). You can tell these two plants apart by ...

For many pond owners the sight of a green film across their prized body of water is all too familiar. While there are a multitude of aquatic plant species that may be to blame, two of the most ...

Watermeal is Earth’s smallest flowering plant found floating in pinhead-sized clumps. It could have a big impact on space exploration, providing food and oxygen for future astronauts.

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope image of approximately 1mm-diameter watermeal plants after hypergravity exposure. A tiny plant with enormous potential. Watermeal, even smaller than the more ...