Tape-grass

Tape-grass

Tape-grass, Eel-grass Vallisneria spiralis grows submerged in fresh waters and like Water Weed it is water-pollinated. The female flowers grow to the surface on very long stalks and there they are fertilised by floating male flowers that have broken off the main plant. After pollination the stalks of the female flowers coil into a spiral and pull the flowers back under water. [CH] {WO}