Gregory Kohs schreef:
Oldak, I don't mean to be snippy, but, I don't really care what Google results on that search say, if (according to Wikipedia)...
Water caltrop is: "sold as an occasional streetside snack in the south of" China.
Eleocharis dulcis is: "The small, rounded corms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corm have a crispy white flesh and can be eaten raw, slightly boiled, grilled, pickled, or tinned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning. They are a popular ingredient in Western-style Chinese dishes. In China, they are most often eaten raw, sometimes sweetened. They can also be ground into a flourhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flourwhich is used especially to make fried cakes called *matigao* (??????; m??tí g??o). They are unusual among vegetables for remaining crisp even after being cooked or canned."
Which one do you think 98% of Wikipedia users are actually searching for? How many of them might be confused by their "eenie meenie mynie moe" on the disambiguation page.
I'm not an expert on these plants; never having met them before; but the number of interwiki links on both pages seem to confirm that the most well known, and therefore the most common of these two, even in Western Europe, would be Trapa natans.
But a disambiguation page is probably best.
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