Patent ID: 8333034

Claim:
A support for holding floating plant species cultures, said support being held by at least two independent supporting elements, the support comprising a planar lattice structure having at least one housing, the housing containing at least one seed, plant, part of a plant or combinations thereof, and at least two anchoring elements anchored to the independent supporting elements; said anchoring elements extending out of a plane defined by the structure to compensate moments and forces generated by a portion of the plant projecting from a water level with respect to a point of intersection of said portion with the plane defined by the structure, until a growth stage in which the plant survives and reproduces on the plant's own upon proliferation of roots or rhizomes thereof; and said anchoring elements transmitting said moments and forces to the independent supporting elements, wherein the planar lattice structure is trapezoidal, the anchoring elements being located in corners of the planar lattice structure, two anchoring elements being connected to an independent supporting element and the other two anchoring elements being connected to the independent supporting element immediately contiguous to a previous supporting element, said anchoring elements having projections, the independent supporting elements fitting into the projections such that two of said anchoring elements separate the independent supporting elements, and the other two anchoring elements bring said supporting elements closer together.