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Alternanthera reineckii . Lilacina - Family ... Amaranthaceae
Alternanthera reineckii lilacina needs plenty of light to grow and form dark-red leaves. In open aquariums it grows willingly up through the surface, and like other difficult plants growth improves considerably if CO2 is added. Shortage of micronutrients results in pale leaves. Like other stem plants A. reineckii Lilacina is best in groups.... View details & shop online
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Lilaeopsis macloviana - Family … Apiaceae
Lilaeopsis macloviana - This Lilaeopsis species has been known in our hobby since the 1980s. Lilaeopsis macloviana (Gandoger) is significantly taller than most other species of Lilaeopsis and it also differs in the way that it willingly forms runners that spread over the bottom in the aquarium. From these runners vertical shoots are formed and each shoot may reach a height of 35-50 cm depending on... View details & shop online
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Utrcularia graminifolia - Family … Lentibulariaceae
Utricularia graminifolia Belongs to the most interesting water plants. It is carnivorous and creates an attractive green carpet in the foreground within a couple of months. Utricularia graminifolia may be difficult to start up but once it has gotten a firm grip in the aquarium, it offers a unique experience for the aquarist. The tiny trapping devices may inspire long discussions among family memb... View details & shop online
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Echinodorus 'Red Diamond' - Family … Alismataceae
Echinodorus 'Red Diamond' Is an attractive sword plant suitable for foreground or middleground plant and with red colors ranging from weakly pink to dark ruby. In particular, the play of colors makes this variety very attractive and often many different colors may be observed on the same specimen. In contrast to many other Echinodorus plants, Echinodorus ‘Red Diamond’ maintains its sma... View details & shop online
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Cladophora aegagropila - Family … Cladophoraceae
Cladophora aegagropila is not really a plant, but a ball of algae, so it is a decorative exception from the rule about avoiding algae at all costs. It is normally found in shallow lakes, where the movement of the waves forms it into a sphere. In an aquarium it must be turned regularly to keep it in shape. C. aegagropila can be divided into smaller pieces, which become spherical with time, or which... View details & shop online
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Pogostemon Helferi - Family … Lamiaceae
Pogostemon helferi is a different but beautiful foreground plant which under good growth conditions forms a dense carpet of dark green leaves. The curly leaves and different leaf form make it stand out from the crowd of other foreground plants and thereby, it creates an attractive variation and regeneration of the planted aquarium.... View details & shop online
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Vallisneria nana - Family … Hydrocharitaceae
Vallisneria nana Is a solitary contrast plant with dark green, rosulate, narrow leaves. It is extremely suitable as a mid-ground plant, but can also be used as a background plant in small aquariums. The leaves are much narrower than with other species of Vallisneria, nor are they quite as long.... View details & shop online
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Echinodorus 'Aquartica' - Family … Alismataceae
Echinodorus 'Aquartica' Is unique due to its low and compact stature making it suitable and attractive as foreground plant. It is a slow-growing plant and even after several months, the size is still around 10-15 cm. In contrast to many other Echinodorus plants, the oval and freshly green aerial leaves survive when the plant is submerged in the aquarium. The leaves, in particular, distinguish Echi... View details & shop online
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Cryptocoryne DecorRock - Cryptocoryne on Mother Plant
Cryptocoryne DecorRock - Various species of Cryptocoryne are supplied on lava rocks for decoration directly on the substrate. The plant is firmly attached with its own roots to the lava rocks in much the same fashion that can be found in nature. The chosen varieties of Cryptocoryne are all sturdy and they are doing well under water under most environmental conditions.... View details & shop online
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Vallisneria caulescens - Family … Hydrocharitaceae
Vallisneria caulescens is a spectacularly decorative plant from northern Australia. Reddish structures towards the leaf tips and a central stripe through the leaves differentiate Vallisneria caulescens from the other, more familiar Vallisneria species. In addition, Vallisneria caulescens forms side shoots from the stems over and above the ''normal'' Vallisneria leaves. Vallisneria caulescens requi... View details & shop online
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Alternanthera reineckii . Roseafolia - Family ... Amaranthaceae
Alternanthera species are usually difficult aquarium plants. However, these plants are grown from seedlings and in our experience this plant is well adapted to the environmental conditions of the aquarium. It is easily reproduced in the aquarium by cuttings which are replanted in the substrate. The lower leaf side of Alternanthera reineckii Roseafolia is violet and this creates a beautiful contras... View details & shop online
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Anubias barteri . Coffeefolia - Family ... Araceae
Anubias barteri coffeefolia is a very beautiful, low variety of Anubias barteri. It is characteristic that the leaves arch considerably between the leaf ribs, and the new leaves are red-brown. The colour combination and leaf shape make it an attractive variety in both large and small aquariums. It flowers frequently under water but does not produce seeds there. Anubias species seem to grow so slow... View details & shop online
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Anubias barteri var. angustifolia (afzelii) - Family ... Araceae
Anubias barteri var. angustifolia is a beautiful plant with long, narrow leaves. Anubias barteri var. angustifolia used to be sold as Anubias afzelii, but the latter is actually a much larger species. It is grown under the same conditions as Anubias barteri var. nana. It is not eaten by herbivorous fish.... View details & shop online
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Anubias barteri v. barteri - Family ... Araceae
Anubias barteri is an extremely variable species and it is, at the same time, the most common of the Anubias genus. Several cultured hybrids exist, apart from naturally occurring varieties, and it is commonly produced from tissue cultures. Anubias barteri var. barteri anchors easily to rocks and roots in the aquarium and care must be taken if it is planted directly into the sediment- always leave ... View details & shop online
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Anubias barteri var. caladiifolia 1705 - Family ... Araceae
Anubias barteri var. caladiifolia 1705 is an adaptive and sturdy plants available. It accepts almost any water quality from soft to hard and from acid to weakly basic water. It is very slow growing like any other Anubias species and therefore the leaves are quite exposed and likely to develop a cover of epiphytic algae by age. This is less likely to happen if it is grown in soft and slightly acid ... View details & shop online
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Anubias barteri v. nana - Family ... Araceae
Anubias barteri v. nana is a very sturdy swamp plant and it often set submerged flowers - it seems like the plant doesn't realize it is growing submerged. It is slow growing and should be offered low light regimes to avoid algal growth on the leaves. It accepts all kind of freshwaters - hard and soft, acid and alkaline.... View details & shop online
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Aponogeton boivinianus - Family ... Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton boivinianus is one of the most precious aquarium plants available. Given the right environmental conditions this plant can grow very heavy and it is thus suitable for large tanks only. On full-grown individuals, the petiole is up to 20 cm long and the length of the blade up to 60 cm and 8 cm wide. The old leaves are dark green whereas the younger are brighter green and sometimes brownis... View details & shop online
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Aponogeton crispus - Family ... Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton crispus is among the most valuable and beautiful aquarium plants. It has translucently bright to dark green leaves which reach a length of 30 cm. The blade is gently crispate - hence the scientific name crispus - and is carried on a 30-cm long petiole. Aponogeton crispus prefers a nutrient rich substrate with clay and it adapts quite easily to the environment in most aquaria. The inflor... View details & shop online
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Aponogeton longiplumulosus - Family ... Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton longiplumulosus has large, fluted leaves, making it a wonderful plant which can be recommended for large aquariums. It is relatively undemanding, and makes no special demands on water quality. It also flowers frequently, making it a beautiful addition to any large open aquarium. It stops growing at regular intervals, but normally starts again after a few weeks of dormancy.... View details & shop online
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Aponogeton madagascariensis - Family ... Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton madagascariensis is without comparison among the oddest plants in our aquaria. Instead of normal mesophyll, a lattice full of holes develops and this makes the plant a rarity in every botanical garden or collection of water plants. However, Aponogeton madagascariensis is a very difficult plant to grow and should be kept as a proud solitary plant only in specialised aquaria. It requires ... View details & shop online
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Aponogeton ulvaceus - Family ... Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton ulvaceus is a stout plant which demands large tanks with a good amount of water surface. The leaves are translucent, bright green with a narrowed leaf base. The leaves are typical 20-50 cm long (occasionally up to 100 cm at optimum growth conditions), 3-10 cm broad and wavy on the sides. The primary form of Aponogeton ulvaceus is rather rare, and most available plants are hybrids. As ma... View details & shop online
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Azolla caroliniana - Family ... Asteraceae
Azolla caroliniana is a small floating fern housing blue-green algae in its leaves. This algae is capable of absorbing nitrogen from the air, which can then be used by the plant. Water resistant. A. caroliniana now occurs all over the tropics, where it has become a menace because it covers lakes and deprives the original aquatic plants of light. Used as nitrogen fertiliser in rice paddies, and som... View details & shop online
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Bacopa australis - Family ... Scrophulariaceae
Bacopa australis was discovered in southern Brazil (australis = southern), and it does not come from Australia, as might otherwise be assumed from its name. Like the other Bacopa species, Bacopa australis is also easy to grow in an aquarium. Under certain conditions it creeps across the bottom to form an elegantly decorative light green cushion. When Bacopa australis grows in a good light, the lea... View details & shop online
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Bacopa caroliniana - Family ... Scrophulariaceae
Bacopa caroliniana is a popular aquarium plant from North America where it inhabits the amphibious zone of streams and temporary ponds. Apart from the relatively high light demands this plant does not require any special considerations to thrive in the aquarium. The substrate should be sandy with some clay at the bottom of the root horizon and Bacopa caroliniana prefers soft water over hard water ... View details & shop online
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Bacopa monnieri - Family ... Scrophulariaceae
Bacopa monnieri is a very common amphibious plant of the Pan Tropics where it occupies the banks of slow flowing rivers and lakes. The light green leaves are placed opposite on a hairy and weakly branched stem. The leaves are often narrower than the leaves of B. caroliniana and B. monnieri tends to have longer internodes, too. If the shoot reaches the surface, it may set small white to pink flower... View details & shop online
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Marsilea hirsuta - Family ... Marsileceae
Marsilea hirsuta is a fascinating plant, usually delivered with leaves like a four-leaf clover. After a transitional period it develops different types of leaves, possibly a low form with single leaves like a large Glossostigma, or alternatively develop two, three or four-lobed leaves varying in height, depending on the growth conditions. Whichever form the plant adopts, it forms runners and sprea... View details & shop online
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Bolbitis heudelotii - Family ... Lomariopsidaceae
The fern Bolbitis heudelotii is a fine and much appreciated aquarium plant with very beautiful transparent leaves. Bolbitis prefers soft water with pH below 7 and it responds to CO2 enrichment of the water with a nice growth. In alkaline water, however, the leaves can develop black spots. It is easily reproduced by adventitious shoots and rhizome cuttings, though adventitious plants occasionly dev... View details & shop online
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Cabomba caroliniana - Family ... Cabombaceae
Cabomba caroliniana is one of the oldest and most popular aquarium plants. The plant has the most beautiful and finely dissected submerged leaves of a very attractive light-green colour. Occasionally, floating leaves are produced, too, when the shoot reaches the water surface or in association with flowering. Apart from the very high light demands of Cabomba caroliniana, the plant does not require... View details & shop online
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Cardamine lyrata - Family ... Brassicaceae
Cardamine lyrata is a light green and often quite bushy plant, which occasionally appears in the shops. The leaves are flattened and alternate and - at least in cool water - the internodes are short. On heavily ramifying shoot the plant appears very dense and decorative. The plant is easily recognised by the roots that develop from every node. Cardamine lyrata is amphibious and inhabits the banks ... View details & shop online
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Ceratophyllum demersum - Family ... Ceratophyllaceae
Ceratophyllum demersum has whirled leaves which are densely crowded at the apex of beautifully branched stems, whereas internodes may exceed 3 cm in length at the base of older stems. Ceratophyllum demersum is an obligate submerged perennial plant which does not form roots. In Nature it is usually found buried in sandy to silty sediments where it anchors itself by modified leaves. Ceratophyllum de... View details & shop online
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