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  Chinese Water Chestnuts

 

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These small rounded corms, reddish-brown in colour and with a cone-shaped tapered end at the basal area, are Chinese Water Chestnuts. In Thai, they are known as somwang or haew, and in Chinese they are called biqi.

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