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Albidella nymphaeifolia

Albidella nymphaeifolia is a small aquatic plant in the Alismataceae (water plantain) family, native to Cuba and the Yucatán region of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. It grows submerged or with floating leaves in wet tropical water, so keep it wet or fully submerged.

Family
Alismataceae (Alismat family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Grow it submerged or in very wet, waterlogged conditions; it is a water plant, not a land plant.
Soil
Nutrient-rich mud or aquarium substrate, or a heavy wet pond soil.
Temperature
Warm, roughly 20–30 °C; protect from cold below about 10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Mexico to Guatemala, Cuba
Climate
wet tropical

About

Albidella nymphaeifolia is a species of flowering plant in genus Alismataceae. It is an annual or helophyte native to Cuba and the Yucatán Peninsula (Belize, Guatemala, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán State).

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Albidella nymphaeifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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