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Barclaya motleyi is a perennial aquatic water-lily from Southeast Asia and New Guinea, grown in aquariums and warm water gardens. It needs warm, still water with fertile, acidic mud in which to root.
Barclaya motleyi is a species of perennial aquatic plant native to the region spanning from Thailand to Western Malesia, and New Guinea.
It is used in the aquarium trade. It can be cultivated in muddy, acid, fertile soils at temperatures of 22-26 °C.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Barclaya motleyi 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.
