{"id":24967,"date":"2024-07-12T06:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24967"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:00:48","slug":"salvinia-molesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/salvinia-molesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvinia molesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Salvinia molesta:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highly <strong>detrimental aquatic fern<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is commonly known as \u201c<strong>Water Fern\u201d<\/strong> is an aggressive and a fast growing Alien Invasive Aquatic Weed of the <strong>South-Eastern Brazil origin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It prefers <strong>tropical, sub-tropical or warm temperate areas<\/strong> of the world and grows best in still or slow-moving water bodies including ditches, ponds, lakes, slow rivers and canals.<\/li>\n<li>It is locally <strong>known as \u201cChinese Jhalaar<\/strong>\u201d, this invasive species was <strong>first spotted in India in 2018<\/strong> and had completely carpeted the reservoir by 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impacts on environment:<\/strong> It may form dense vegetation mats that reduce water-flow and lower the light and oxygen levels in the water.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has been widely <strong>introduced as an ornamental plant<\/strong> and has been used as a mulch for crops in dry areas near water bodies where it grows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Fern?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a class of nonflowering, herbaceous vascular plants that possess true roots, stems, and complex leaves and that reproduce by spores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/environment\/foreign-insects-turn-allies-in-eradicating-invasive-aquatic-weeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Foreign insects turn allies in eradicating invasive aquatic weeds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvinia molesta is commonly known as \u201cWater Fern\u201d is an aggressive and a fast growing Alien Invasive Aquatic Weed of the South-Eastern Brazil origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}