You would expect to see flowers of Utricularia australis on display just above the surface of a pond or lake. Now botanists have found open U. australis flowers on a lakebed over four metres below the surface.
Read the blog post at: <a href="https://www.botany.one/2022/01/an-unexpected-killer-lurks-deep-in-italian-lakes/">https://www.botany.one/2022/01/an-unexpected-killer-lurks-deep-in-italian-lakes/</a>
Original paper at: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103487">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103487</a>

You would expect to see flowers of Utricularia australis on display just above the surface of a pond or lake. Now botanists have found open U. australis flowers on a lakebed over four metres below the surface. Read the blog post at: https://www.botany.one/2022/01/an-unexpected-killer-lurks-deep-in-italian-lakes/ Original paper at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103487

You would expect to see flowers of Utricularia australis on display just above the surface of a pond or lake. Now botanists have found open U. australis flowers on a lakebed over four metres below the surface.
Read the blog post at: <a href="https://www.botany.one/2022/01/an-unexpected-killer-lurks-deep-in-italian-lakes/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.botany.one/2022/01/an-unexpected-killer-lurks-deep-in-italian-lakes/</a>
Original paper at: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103487" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103487</a>

An unexpected killer lurks deep in Italian lakes

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