Elatine hydropiper
Eight-stamen waterwort







Elatine hydropiper
Eight-stamen waterwort
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Description
Elatine hydropiper was brought into trade as an aquarium plant in Jahr 2010 by the aquatic plant nursery Anubias. This plant has soon gained a lot of popularity with aquascapers as wonderful ground-covering plant. It looks like a miniature version of Glossostigma elatinoides. Whereas G. elatinoides can become quite invasive under good conditions, Elatine hydropiper grows only moderately and is thus much easier to handle.
Elatine hydropiper was brought into trade by Anbias plant company in 2010. Presumably the aquarium population of this plant was originally collected in Italy (Adams 2010). Whether it is really E. hydropiper should be verified by means of flowering and fruiting plants. Elatine hydropiper is widely distributed in Europe up to northern Scandinavia as well as in Siberia and Northern China. In Italy it only grows in the north-west. This species grows in and on ponds, rivers and marshes. The area of distribution reaches very far north, which makes it rather astonishing that the aquarium population of E. hydropiper grows so well in tropical tanks.
In the south of Italy and in other regions of the Mediterranean, two more species that look very much like E. hydropiper: Elatine macropoda, which is mentioned in old aquarium literature, and E. (read more)
Common names | Eight-stamen waterwort |
Complete botanical name | Elatíne hydrópiper L. |
Family | Elatinaceae |
Genus | Elatine |
Difficulty | difficult |
Usage | Nano tanks, Foreground, ground cover |
Aquascaping | forms a small-leaved carpet |
Growth | medium |
pH value | 6 - 7 |
Temperature tolerance | 4 - 26°C |
Carbonate hardness | 4 - 8°dKH |
General hardness | 0 - 30°dGH |
Propagation | Runners, Cuttings, Splitting, cutting off daughter plants |
Can grow emersed? | yes |
Source | Flowgrow |
Common names |
Eight-stamen waterwort |
Complete botanical name |
Elatíne hydrópiper L. |
Family |
Elatinaceae |
Genus |
Elatine |
Difficulty |
difficult |
Usage |
Nano tanks, Foreground, ground cover |
Aquascaping |
forms a small-leaved carpet |
Growth |
medium |
pH value |
6 - 7 |
Temperature tolerance |
4 - 26°C |
Carbonate hardness |
4 - 8°dKH |
General hardness |
0 - 30°dGH |
Propagation |
Runners, Cuttings, Splitting, cutting off daughter plants |
Can grow emersed? |
yes |
Source |
Flowgrow |
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Lieferung perfekt! Leider haben die Lichtverhältnisse nicht gereicht um die Pflnze durchzubringen! Aber es wird noch ...
wollte am anfang nicht richtig wachsen aber mittlerweile kommt sie zwar langsam aber sie wächst
hätte mehr im becher sein können

Dies war das erste Mal, das ich bei Aquasabi bestellt habe. Kann dazu nur sagen: Ich bin begeistert! Beratung, Ware und Lieferung, alles Top! (read more)