2, chicken head rice, also known as gorgonian, is a water lily family gorgonian genus of annual aquatic herbs. Submerged leaves arrow-shaped or elliptic kidney-shaped, floating leaves leathery, elliptic kidney-shaped to rounded, petiole and pedicel stout, flower inner surface purple, generally July-August flowering, August-September results.

3, gorgonians like warm, sunny, not cold nor drought. The appropriate temperature for growth is 20-30 ℃, water depth 30-90 cm. Suitable for the surface of the water is not wide, water mobility is small, sufficient water, can regulate the water level, easy to drain ponds, reservoirs, lakes and lakeside of the Great Lakes. Requirements for fertile soil, containing more organic matter soil. Propagation by seed.