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Najas grossareolata

Najas grossareolata, the Sri Lankan water nymph, is a small submerged aquatic plant from fresh water ponds in Sri Lanka. It is rare and little studied, so little practical growing information exists.

Family
Hydrocharitaceae (Hydrocharit family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Grows submerged in fresh water; keep fully underwater.
Soil
Grows rooted in pond mud or substrate, or floating free.
Temperature
Likely tropical warm water, roughly 20–30 °C; protect from freezing.
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Sri Lanka
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

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Najas grossareolata, called the Sri Lankan water nymph, is an aquatic plant growing in fresh water ponds. It is a rare and little-known species known from Sri Lanka.

Other Najas plants

Najas ancistrocarpa · Needleleaf waternymph · Nodding waternymph · Slender waternymph · Ricefield waternymph · Southern waternymph · Najas hagerupii · Najas halophila · Najas indica · Najas kurziana · Najas madagascariensis · Spiny naiad

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Najas grossareolata 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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