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Bamboo Leaf Pondweed

Potamogeton wrightii

Bamboo Leaf Pondweed
Photo: Hspe, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bamboo Leaf Pondweed is a submerged aquatic plant that lives in slow-moving fresh water and is grown in ponds and aquaria. It needs full submersion and bright water to stay healthy.

Family
Potamogetonaceae (Potamogeton family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep fully submerged in still or slow-moving water; no watering needed as a pond or aquarium plant.
Soil
Rooted in mud or fine substrate, or left free-floating in water.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from freezing.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Asia to NW. Pacific
Climate
subtropical

About

Potamogeton wrightii, is an aquatic plant species in the genus Potamogeton. It is found in slow-moving fresh water.

Where it grows

This species is known to be hybridized to Potamogeton lucens in Japan and China.

Other Potamogeton plants

Alpine pondweed · Small Pondweed · Fen Pondweed · Grass-wrack pondweed · Curly pondweed · Little-leaf pondweed · Pondweed · Waterthread pondweed · Ribbonleaf pondweed · Variableleaf pondweed · Illinois pondweed · Potamogeton ×inbaensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Potamogeton wrightii 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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