Osiris sword plant
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Osiris sword plant ( Echinodorus uruguayensis ) |
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The Osiris sword plant or Uruguay sword plant ( Echinodorus uruguayensis Arechav. , Syn . : Echinodorus osiris Rataj , as Echinodorus uruguayensis var. Minor also called Echinodorus horemannii ) is a swamp plant from the family of the frog- spoon plants (Alismataceae). Osiris' sword plant is named after the Brazilian aquatic plant nursery Lotus Osiris .
description
It is a medium to large and vigorously growing, perennial, herbaceous plant that forms rhizomes. The elliptical-lanceolate leaves have a wavy edge and grow out of a rosette. The upper side of the leaf is olive green to reddish brown.
Occurrence
The natural range of this plant species is southern Brazil , Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and southern and central Chile.
use
Like most other species of the sword plant genus , the Osiris sword plant is one of the popular aquarium plants . The Osiris sword plant is considered a particularly undemanding and adaptable plant with a medium to high light requirement. In the aquarium this species thrives best at temperatures between 18 and 26 degrees Celsius. It is suitable as a medium, background and specimen plant. Aquariums should hold about one hundred and fifty liters.
literature
- Christel Kassel man : make planted aquarium . Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-440-08518-X .
- Christel Kasselmann: aquarium plants . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 257 ( Echinodorus osiris ) and p. 273-275 ( Echinodorus uruguayensis ) and 266 (for the crossing of Echinodorus 'Rubin' ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Georg Kramer: Plant aquaristics á la Kramer. Tetra-Verlag, Berlin-Velten 2009, ISBN 978-3-89745-190-2 , pp. 130 f.
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Echinodorus - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on June 18, 2018.