1 Medium Amazon Swordplant Aquarium live plant fish

AMAZON SWORDPLANT

ECHINODORUS AMAZONICUS / ECHINODORUS BREVIPEDICELLUTUS

You are bidding on one large amazon swordplant.

Specifications:

·          Leaf height 10 - 15cm

·         Will grow big, mature leaf height is 25 – 30cm and 2 – 3cm wide

·         Easy maintenance

·         Very hardy

·         Great as a centre of focal plant in the aquarium

·         May also be planted closely together to form small bushy foreground plants

Preferred payment method: Bank Deposit

Postage cost:

·        $9 for single plants

·        $9 for two combined plants

·        $12 for three combined plants

Pick up is available from Parramatta area.

Please note: I can’t send to WA due to quarantine law

This beautiful plant originates in Brazil and the mid to lower region of the Amazon River basin.  There are three veins extending from the base to the tip of the leaf and two less prominent veins closer to the edges.  The first pair of lateral veins come from the central rib, just above the base of the blade.  The blade is much  longer than the petiole.

Like most Echinodorus species, it grows well both submersed and emersed.  In nature, these plants are more often bog type plants with the roots submersed and the leaves up above the water.  The floral stalk is thin and comes up out of the water.  It may have four to nine white flowers forming on the nodes on the stalk.  If left in the water, these flowers won’t open.  Emersed however, they open nicely and can be fertilized with a feather.  The pollen is powdery yellow.  The seeds take a long time for form and really only look like a dried up crown in the centre of the long dried flower.

Plantlets form best along the nodes that are submersed.  They may also develop emersed if the humidity is fairly high above the water but these plantlets don’t grow roots until the plantlets are submersed.  Once roots form on the plantlets, they can be gently wiggled off the runner and planted.  Be careful not to break or damage the runner as more plantlets will grow on the same runner in a few months.

The original “mother” plant tends to drop many of its larger leaves when it starts developing runnings and results in a smaller but still very attractive plant.