Echinodorus amazonicus

• Temperature: 20 - 28 C
• PH: 6.0 - 7.6
• Lighting: Medium
• Growth Rate: Slow
• Difficulty: Medium

This sword plant is perhaps the most popular rosette plant sold in the pet trade today. They are royal-looking centerpiece plants that are fairly hardy and take root easily once they adjust to the new tank.

Amazon Swords should ideally be planted in a medium fine gravel bed. Like most of its close relatives in the genus Echinodorus, it can grow out of the water and is therefore a great choice for an open aquarium. It will however do fine completely submersed too. In the wild, you can often see Amazon Swords growing in boggy environments.

Habitat

This is an aquatic emergent plant. It has very high moisture needs; suitable for bogs and water gardens.