Narrow-leaved sword plant
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The narrow-leaved sword plant ( Echinodorus angustifolius ) is a species of the frog-spoon family (Alismataceae). It thrives as a swamp plant , is native to Brazil (Mato Grosso) and is closely related to Echinodorus bolivianus .
description
It is a runners-forming, perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 40 to 60 centimeters (a small form of the species that grows more slowly than the trunk is only 8 to 10 centimeters high). The 3 to 4 millimeter wide, ribbon-shaped leaves grow out of a rosette . The leaf surface with a yellowish one to two millimeters wide central nerve is light green.
use
The narrow-leaved sword plant is often used in the aquarium hobby as an aquarium plant because it is undemanding and adaptable. The rosette plant works particularly well in high aquariums . The light requirement of this plant is medium.
literature
- Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 239.
- Hans-Georg Kramer: Plant aquaristics á la Kramer. Tetra-Verlag, Berlin-Velten 2009, ISBN 978-3-89745-190-2 , p. 122 f.