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If you’ve heard about duckweed (the pollution-cleaning, climate change-fighting super food) then maybe you’ve also heard of azolla, a family of seven species of edible water-dwelling ferns that grows lightning-fast and is packed full of nutrients. Scientists are now studying azolla’s potential in space agriculture as a super food crop for Mars habitation.

So what does a super plant taste like? Fascinated by the humble plant but stymied by the lack of actual gastronomical data, Stockh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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