Wolffia arrhiza – true green gold!

This is the world’s smallest flowering plant. It also happens to be the world’s fastest growing vascular plant. It can produce protein up to 50 times as quickly as soybeans. It produces a more complete — sic: “better” — protein than soybeans. It can be extracted for its high quality protein, xanthophyll, beta carotene, folic acid. It can be turned into animal feed or fish feed.