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Databases compiled from the Ministry of Primary Industries list of Tropical fish allowed to be imported into New Zealand.
Freshwater Fish A toH. Freshwater Fish I to Z. Tropical Marine Fish .
Killifish on list Marine Invertebrates. Exotic Reptiles and Amphibians
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Sagittaria sagittifolia
Arrowhead
- Scientific Name: Sagittaria sagittifolia
- Origin: Native to Asia and Europe
- Type: Weed
- Plant Life-form Type: Marginal erect/tall
- Taxonomy: L.
- Presence: Locally naturalised, first record from Coromandel Peninsula in 2002.
- Habitat: Still and slow flowing water bodies and wetlands.
- Temperature (°C): Dec-24
- pH range: 7.2 - 8.0
- Hardness (ppm): 100 - 150
- Notes: A potentially important irrigation weed; poor dispersal capacity has limited current spread. This species has been included in this survey only to demonstrate a use most Sagittarias have in SE Asia. The rootstock or corm of many Sagittaria species & particularly S. sagittifolia is farmed as an edible vegetable somewhat like taro. I have also used its emerged leaf form to illustrate the extremes in shape.
- Propagation: Apparently by deliberate planting and subsequent spread by water movement. Possibly cultivated as a vegetable by some ethnic groups
- Features: Tall summer-green perennial dying back to underground parts over winter. Emergent leaves have a distinctive glossy arrow-shape with long basal lobes. Petioles are triangular in cross-section. Rhizomatous with round tubers, up to 3 cm across, produced on these. No flowers seen on New Zealand material.
- Source: TIFBIS
- Regional: Regional Pest Management Strategy: AUK, WKO, WGN.
Notifiable Organism, Unwanted Organism, National Pest Plant Accord