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Water Milfoil is one of a range of specialist wetland plants which
live in temporary or permanent freshwater swamps and ponds
throughout the temperate parts of Australia.
Water milfoil leaves grow above and
below the water surface. The submerged leaves are usually
much finer and more divided to help them extract oxygen from the
water.
The common name of milfoil comes
from the words mille - meaning 1000 and foil -
meaning leaf, a reference to the very large numbers of fine
leaves.
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