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Environmental Issues
Which one of the following plant is known as "Terror of Bengal"
A. Bryophyllum
B. Nymphea
C. Parthenium
D. Eichhornia
D. Eichhornia
Eichhornia, commonly called water hyacinths, was a polyphyletic genus of the aquatic flowering plants family Pontederiaceae.
Excessive growth of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), the world's most problematic aquatic weed, also called "Terror of Bengal”, grows abundantly in eutrophic water bodies and imbalances water ecosystem.
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