Family: Araceae
Continent: Pan Tropic
Region: Pan Tropic
Country of origin:
Height: 5-20+ cm
Width: 5-20+ cm
Light requirements: high-very high
Temperature: 17-30 °C
Hardness tolerance: very soft-very hard
pH tolerance: 5-8
Growth: fast
Demands: medium
Pistia stratiotes is a beautiful floating plant for open aquariums and
indoor ponds. It is easy to propagate by using runners. In Europe it can also be
used as a summer plant in garden ponds, but in the tropics it is regarded as a
serious weed. It is also good in traditional aquariums, where the fine, long,
decorative roots provide hiding-places for gouramies and other surface fish. If
growth is good it must be pruned to prevent it overshadowing the other plants.
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