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Highly popular aquarium plant.
A great evergreen perennial for your pond.
Size is roughly: 1-4cm.
Attractive, easy to raise, and economical. If you're looking for a surface plant that also reduces the excess light that encourages algae growth, you'll appreciate dwarf water lettuce even more.
This is beautiful floating plant can be used indoor or outdoor aquariums and vivariums. Shrimp may often hang below the leaves on the roots. Plant also provides shelter for fish.
Removes Nitrogenous Wastes. Roots like these suck nitrogen and other digested fish wastes out of the water. They help purify the water.
Propagation by runners. Do not let plant completely cover the surface else other submersed plants will get shaded.
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Position: full sun
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Depth of water: 15cm +
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Rate of growth: average to fast
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Ultimate spread: 150cm +
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Height above surface: 15cm
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Flowering period: June to September
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Hardiness: tender
A decorative floating aquatic, which can be used to dress an outside during the summer, then kept in an indoor aquarium when the temperatures start to drop. It has fabulous evergreen foliage, and pretty roots, which change colour from white to purple, then black as they mature. In tropical regions (where it originates from), it can be invasive, but here in the UK, the lower temperatures and colder winters prevent it from becoming a nuisance.
We will send plants in different sizes. One plant has one root system. We normally mix in some big ones and some small. The younger plantlets will grow, while the adult plants will off-shoot and create more plants.
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