Trapa natans

Perennial

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Water up to 60cm deep.

Family: Trapaceae
Height: 0 m / 0 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Water

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Water Chestnut Trapa natans native habitat is Water up to 60cm deep.

Edible Uses

Seed - raw, cooked or dried and ground into a powder. A sweet floury and agreeable flavour, similar to sweet chestnuts (Castanea spp). The seed contains up to 50% starch according to one report, 16% starch, 3% protein in another report and 15% protein, 7.5% fat in a third. (Are all these reports talking about the same thing?). One report says that the raw nut contains toxins that are destroyed by cooking the seed.