Talk:Elodea

I had the chance to learn about Elodea in an environmental science class, and I do not believe that this article does justic to the havoc the plant can wreak on environments. For example, I believe it was proven that an Elodea sample thrown out of a museum in France is what is causing the rapid Elodea colonization of the sea floor in the Mediterranean.

Perhaps this article can be reworked so that more is put in about it.

Also, as another note, there was a comment about a picture in this article. I removed it. I also fear this article may have been copied from another site entirely, hence the unedited picture comment. --Mr Bound 00:46, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Elodea is a freshwater species, the plant that is damaging the Mediterranean Sea is a marine species Caulerpa taxifolia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulerpa_taxifolia Sharm (talk) 15:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Breaking the article up into a section about the general ecology of the genera, and a section about Elodea as an invasive species would be good --nixie 01:20, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Do elodea cells have any mitochondria? -- Katie yes

This page should be merged with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_waterweed

How tall do elodea get to be?
I need to know how tall they grow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.171.119.86 (talk) 21:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Anachris?
Anacharis isn't the same thing as Elodea Canandensis. Anacharis is Egeria Densa, and "anacharis" should redirect to the page titled "Egeria Densa," not "Elodea."

strange section
'It is still unknown however to scientists worldwide who are trying to crack a very difficult problem which refers to all aquatic plants rather than just the elodea. That question is: How does the elodea still manage to obtain Carbon Dioxide (CO2) even when it doesn't have any stomata (plural. stoma)?"

This seems odd, I think its well known that CO2 passes into aquatic plant cell walls easily thus making specialized structures for CO2 intake unnecessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.54.137 (talk) 11:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)