fanworts
Cabomba
Cabomba is a genus of perennial, rhizomatous, aquatic herbs in the family Cabombaceae native to tropical and subtropical America. It has divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan (hence the vernacular name fanwort) and is much favoured by aquarists as an ornamental and oxygenating plant for fish tanks. One species, Cabomba caroliniana, is a nationally declared weed in Australia, where it has choked up waterways after escaping from aquaria.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Carolina Fanwort
speciesCabomba caroliniana
Yellow Cabomba
speciesCabomba aquatica
red cabomba
speciesCabomba furcata
Purple Cabomba
speciesCabomba palaeformis
Cabomba schwartzii
speciesCabomba schwartzii
Cabomba haynesii
speciesCabomba haynesii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72023.