Water hyacinth:

The water hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes) is one of the most damaging aquatic plants in the world. Once introduced into an uninfested watercourse, water hyacinth colonises the area and becomes extremely invasive and a nuisance to the environment, economy and people of the affected areas. The water hyacinth is an aquatic plant that grows at high speed and covers the water surface with a thick layer of plant biomass. This plant biomass offers invaluable potential to solve economic, social and environmental challenges by creating value from the waste and by-products of water hyacinth and making them available for new uses; not only in bioenergy but also in biomolecules, biobased materials, animal feed ingredients, etc.