Leaf colourgreen, bronze or brown
Native range
- Madagascar
rosette background Conservation status: EN
A bulb plant from Madagascar with long olive leaves whose edges are deeply waved. Big, undemanding and happy in almost any water.
- Light
- low
- Difficulty
- medium
- Height
- 20 – 60 cm
- Temperature
- 12 – 28 °C
Parameters
Plant typerosette
Growth ratemedium
CO₂ demandlow
Tolerates lightmedium – high
Carbonate hardness4 – 12 °dKH
Placementbackground
Propagationseeds
Grows emersedno
Appearance
Narrow leaves 20–60 cm long with strongly fluted edges, olive green to brownish, on long stalks. It makes no floating leaves, so the whole plant stands in the water column.
Keeping
Moderate demands and no special requirements about water. Dim light is enough, carbon dioxide is optional; root feeding under the bulb makes the difference. The usual bulb rule applies: leave the growing tip at the surface of the substrate rather than burying it. It stops growing at intervals, rests a few weeks and starts again — the bulb is not dead.
Placement
The back of a large tank, alone. In a small aquarium the leaves have nowhere to go.
Propagation
It flowers readily in an open tank; ripe seeds are sown on the substrate.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 1008 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.
Swordtail GuppiesCobra GuppyBlood Red MollyButterflyfishRed Zebra CichlidJulii CorydorasRed-finned ParotocinclusGastromyzon monticolaEgg-shaped GoldfishFlame TetraGardner's KillifishAfrican TetraKenyi CichlidCuckoo CatfishGolden SwordtailHypsolebias picturatusCommon ZaccoLabeo BicolorGambusiaFlying barbGastromyzon scitulusAlbino Zebra DanioGeophagus BrokopondoZebra Mbuna
Will eat this plant
These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.
Bengal LoachZebra LoachBurmese Border LoachEmperor BotiaSpined LoachMarbled HeadstanderPellegrin's LeporinusLeporinus striatusFalse Black TetraCommon MetynnisMylossoma duriventreRed Whiptail CatfishMolly sphenopsBalloon MollyLyretail MollyMarble MollyHi-Fin PlatyHawaii PlatyBlue PlatyPintail PlatyBlack PlatyChocolate MollyMoonlight GouramiMelanotaenia parva
Will uproot it
These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.
Marble LoachPeacock EelForktail LoachGuntea LoachLong-nosed LoachHorseface LoachPearlscaleBlack Moor GoldfishShubunkinPainted PlecoFeatherfin SynodontisReddish Mystus CatfishBlue AcaraAulonocara maylandiAulonocara multicolorAulonocara OrchidGeophagus altifronsGeophagus winemilleriPearlscale CichlidPearl CichlidRedbelly CichlidRed-spotted CichlidChuco godmanniHaplochromis philanderRed ChromideJack Dempsey cichlid