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Echinodorus reptilis

Echinodorus reptilis is an aquatic plant from South America in the water plantain family, grown mainly in aquariums and wet paludariums. It does best rooted in nutrient-rich substrate under bright light.

Family
Alismataceae (Alismat family)
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep fully submerged in aquarium water; it grows in water rather than soil.
Soil
Nutrient-rich aquarium substrate or fine gravel with root tabs.
Temperature
20–28 °C; avoid prolonged temperatures below 15 °C.
How easy
Moderate

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Echinodorus reptilis is a species of plant in the Alismataceae from South America.

Other Aquarius plants

Creeping Burhead · Aquarius horizontalis · Aquarius palifolius · Aquarius uruguayensis · Echinodorus bracteatus · Echinodorus emersus · Echinodorus grandiflorus · Echinodorus grisebachii · Echinodorus longiscapus · Echinodorus macrophyllus · Echinodorus subalatus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echinodorus reptilis 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.

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