Water chestnut: Water chestnut is the name given to fruits full chestnut nageante and eleocharis. Other names vernacular of the swimming chestnut: scams water, devil's horns, water chestnut, water nut.
Macre (or macre) is a European aquatic plant (family of Haloragaceae – Botanical name Trapa Natans) with white flowers and spiny four-pointed fruits (trapa natans).
This is a plants aquatic floating, lively, locally invasive, which grows in still water bodies up to 5 m deep.
The fruit of the chestnut, the water chestnut, is eaten, like the chestnut, in mash potatoes or cooked in English et jumped.
Water chestnuts have a whitish tint and are crunchy, crispy, juicy cut into slices Finnish with vegetables stir-fried or minced meat. Peeled, they are candied sucre.
La starch water chestnut is excellent for thicken the Sauces and bring crisp Asked fried foods, sweet et fragrant and covered with a thin brownish skin whose flavor evokes the Palm heart.
This plant should not be confused with theEleocharis, another plants aquatic also called "water chestnut", a kind of sedge or sedge also cultivated since antiquity in China, whose horns are commonly used in Chinese cuisine.