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Diamantina lombardii

Diamantina lombardii is a rare aquatic flowering plant from Brazil, the only species in its genus, and it grows attached to rocks in flowing water. It is not a typical garden or houseplant, so the key to any care is reproducing a clean, fast-flowing, rocky stream habitat.

Family
Podostemaceae (Podostem family)
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Grows submerged in flowing water; keep it constantly wet, never allow it to dry out.
Soil
Attaches to bare rock or stone, not to soil.
Temperature
Likely cool to mild stream temperatures; exact range unknown, avoid heat extremes.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Brazil (Minas Gerais)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Diamantina lombardii is a species of flowering plant in the Podostemaceae and the only known member of the genus Diamantina. It was described in 2004.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diamantina lombardii 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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