water-hyacinth

Odd tufts of water-hyacinth were travelling on the soft spermy water, holding up a green leaf like a little sail of a boat, and nodding a delicate, mauve-blue flower.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

On the pale-brown water little tufts of water-hyacinth were vaguely sailing, holding up the hand of a leaf for a sail.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The boat moved slowly, in the hush of departed night, upon the soft, full-flowing buff water, that carried little tufts of floating water-hyacinth.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The bullocks in the traces of the royal carriage were all of unblemished white, their massive humps decorated with bouquets of lilies and water-hyacinth.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

NPB staff at the Enseleni nature reserve recently hosted an open day to inform local communities and sponsors about progress in eradicating water-hyacinth on the Nseleni and Mposa rivers near

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The Natal Parks Board on Monday said it had developed an effective water-hyacinth eradication system on the Nseleni river on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Control of water-hyacinth, the most widespread of the floating plants, continues to be the subject of intensive research.

Chapter 12 1995

They were thick as the leaves of the water-hyacinth which clog the irrigation canals in summer.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Before him spread a large, green pool, filled with rotting logs and leaves, bordered with delicate ferns and grasses among which lifted the creamy spikes of the arrow-head, the blue of water-hyacinth, and the delicate yellow of the jewel-flower.

Freckles 1904

Before him spread a large, green pool, filled with rotting logs and leaves, bordered with delicate ferns and grasses among which lifted the creamy spikes of the arrow-head, the blue of water-hyacinth, and the delicate yellow of the jewel-flower.

Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893