Echinodorus Grandifolius
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Plant: Echinodorus Grandifolius
Family: Alismataceae
Size: Height up to 80 cm
Origin: South America, from Central Brazil to Argentina
Values Water: Temp. 20-28°C; Ph 5.5-7; Gh 6-18
Multiplication: Through Inflorescences with beneficial plants
Light: Lighting medium intense to intense
Features: Palustrous plant adaptable to both emerging and submerged cultivation.
The plant maintains quite low stalks if grown emerse, tends to stretch in aquatic environment where, very often, it easily exceeds the surface of the water.
Suitable for large open aquariums, where they become very decorative if placed in the background.
To make it grow lower, it is useful to cut the bigger leaves or grow above the water surface.
An intense lighting provides a particular coloring of veins that become red.
Important is to make the substrate rich in nutrients using fertilizer tablets.
While preferring water keep fits very well at high hardness values.
Recommended plant also for neophytes thanks to its adaptability.
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