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Najas madagascariensis

Najas madagascariensis, the Madagascar water nymph, is a submerged annual aquatic plant from fresh water ponds, native to Madagascar. It is grown in aquariums and ponds and needs full submersion and bright light.

Family
Hydrocharitaceae (Hydrocharit family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep fully submerged in fresh water; no soil watering needed.
Soil
Grows rooted in fine substrate or floats loose; a nutrient-rich aquarium substrate suits it.
Temperature
20–28 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Najas madagascariensis, called the Madagascar water nymph, is an aquatic plant growing in fresh water ponds. It is native known from Madagascar and naturalized on the Island of Mauritius.

Other Najas plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Najas madagascariensis 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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