Echinodorus x rose

This beautiful plant is a hybrid between Echinodorus horemanii ''Rot'' and Echinodorus horizontalis. Echinodorus x rose (family Alismataceae) is a strong plant with yellow green  to pink young leaves when grown emersed but dark red when submerged. The older  leaves are dark green to an almost brown colour. This plant needs a good fertile  substrate to ensure good growth and is generally an easy plant to maintain  in the aquarium. Propagation is carried out the same as the other species  by plantlets taken off the flower stalks.

• Height 25-40 cm
• Width 15-25 cm
• Light requirements medium-high
• Temperature 20-30 °C
• Hardness tolerance soft-hard
• pH tolerance 5.5-8
• Growth medium
• Demands easy

Habitat

This is an aquatic emergent plant. It has very high moisture needs; suitable for bogs and water gardens. It will bloom readily if grown emersed, but takes a while to form a new set of emersed leaves. This change from submerse to emersed growth is best done gradually.

Echinodorus  x rose (family Alismataceae) is a strong plant with yellow green to  pink young leaves when grown emersed but dark red when submerged. The older  leaves are dark green to an almost brown colour. This plant needs a good fertile substrate to ensure good growth and is generally an easy plant to  maintain in the aquarium. Propagation is carried out the same as the other  species by plantlets taken off the flower stalks.