A lake in Berkeley's Tilden Park has seen an amazing transformation thanks to a tiny plant that is thriving due to the drought.
BERKELEY — A lake in Berkeley’s Tilden Park has seen an amazing transformation thanks to a tiny plant that is thriving due to the drought.
The two-acre lake has seen an explosion of a non-toxic plant called the Azolla fern. Now the top of the lake looks more like a carpet, with a perfectly still, greenish-brown covering almost every inch of its surface. The Regional Park District says it’s also crowding out the toxic algae that sometimes plagues the lake and is keeping the water cooler to help the local trout. As tp why the fern has sprung up in such volume now, park biologists think Lake Anza has been stilled by lack of rainfall, low water flow and an absence of swimmers when the beach was closed during the pandemic. That has allowed the ferns to flourish.It’s giving visitors a view of one of nature’s weirder spectacles.
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