Hyacinth or water hyacinth (Latin: Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the plants that floats in water.
Hyacinth was first discovered accidentally by a scientist named Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius a German botanist in 1824 while on an expedition in the Brazilian Amazon River. Hyacinth has a high growth rate so that this plant is regarded as a weed that can damage the aquatic environment. Hyacinth is easily spread through water channels to other water bodies.
The benefits of plants that float in water (water hyacinth) are:
- Providing substances and vitamins that the body needs.
- Relieve ulcer disease
- Relieves itching on the skin
- Overcoming toothache
- Heavy metal pollutant cleaners
- Make handicrafts
- Material of organic fertilizer manufacture
- Paper making materials
- Animal feed
- Mushroom growth media
These are just a few of the benefits of water hyacinth and probably still many more benefits of this water hyacinth.
In addition to having many benefits, water hyacinth also has a negative effect of the growth of plants Eceng Gondok include:
- Clogging the drains
- Damage the ship
- Being trash
- Turns off the growth in the water
- Become a disease hive