Echinodorus maior martii

• Height: 30-45+ cm
• Width: 15-30 cm
• Light requirements: medium-very high
• Temperature: 18-28 °C
• Hardness tolerance: medium-hard
• pH tolerance: 5.5-8.5
• Growth: medium
• Demands: easy

Echinodorus martii (family Alismataceae) is a smaller Amazon species reaching  about 40 centimetres. This is good plant for a focal point in the aquarium.  The plants leaves are light green and almost see-through with darker edges.  The margins of the leaves are undulated. Echinodorus martii is sensitive to  nutrient defficiency, especially iron. This can be seen by yellowing between  the veins on the leaf or in severe cases an almost white or transparent leaf.  This can normally be stopped by having a rich substrate or adding iron rich  liquid fertilizer (preferably with chelated iron source). Grown emersed this  plant also flowers well in the summer months and produces many plantlets on  the stout flower stalks.

Habitat

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

Echinodorus  martii (family Alismataceae) is a smaller Amazon species reaching  about 40 centimetres. This is good plant for a focal point in the aquarium.  The plants leaves are light green and almost seethrough with darker edges.  The margins of the leaves are undulated. Echinodorus martii is sensitive  to nutrient defficiency, especially iron. This can be seen by yellowing  between the veins on the leaf or in severe cases an almost white or transparent  leaf. This can normally be stopped by having a rich substrate or adding  iron rich liquid fertilizer (preferably with chelated iron source). Grown  emersed this plant also flowers well in the summer months and produces  many plantlets on the stout flower stalks