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Najas hagerupii

Najas hagerupii, the West African water nymph, is a rare submerged freshwater plant of rivers and ponds, known only from Ghana and Mali. It needs fully aquatic conditions, and little cultivation information exists for it.

Family
Hydrocharitaceae (Hydrocharit family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Grow fully submerged in water; it cannot be kept as a conventional potted plant.
Soil
Grows rooted in mud or sandy sediment at the bottom of a pond or slow river.
Temperature
Warm tropical water, roughly 22–30 °C; likely dies back in cooler or dry conditions.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Trop. Africa
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Najas hagerupii, called the West African water nymph, is an aquatic plant growing in fresh water rivers and ponds. It is a rare and little-known species known only from the West African nations of Ghana and Mali.

Other Najas plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Najas hagerupii 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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