Myriophyllum aquaticum ('Normalform')

Myriophyllum aquaticum

The ordinary, 'normal' form of parrot's feather: large, with female flowers above water, and light orange-brown underwater leaves under bright light. This is the form most often found in the trade.

Light: medium–high
Difficulty: easy
Temperature: 4 – 30 °C (39 – 86 °F)

Leaf colour: green
Plant type: stem plant
Growth rate: very fast
Tolerates light: medium – high
pH: 5 – 7
Carbonate hardness: 2 – 21 °dKH
General hardness: 0 – 30 °dGH
Placement: background, midground +2 background, midground, Dutch street, surface
Propagation: cuttings
Grows emersed: yes

Appearance

Above water it develops only female flowers, while 'Green' develops male ones. In good light the underwater leaves are light orange-brown and a little larger than in 'Green'; the stems are wider. It is noticeably prone to growing out of the water, and its emergent shoots are larger than those of var. santacatarinense.

Keeping

Easy, growth very fast, light medium to strong, CO₂ 15–40 mg/l, temperature 15–25 °C.

Placement

Fine-leaved, propagated by cuttings. Background and midground, a Dutch-style street, near the surface.

Trade names

Known under the synonym Myriophyllum brasiliense and the common name 'parrot's feather'.

Water conditions match

The water suits 841 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.

Butterflyfish Julii Corydoras Red-finned Parotocinclus Gastromyzon monticola Egg-shaped Goldfish Flame Tetra Gardner's Killifish African Tetra Hypsolebias picturatus Common Zacco Labeo Bicolor Gambusia Flying barb Gastromyzon scitulus Albino Zebra Danio Geophagus Brokopondo Homaloptera bilineata Red-tailed Rasbora Boraras naevus Lampeye Killifish Spotted Raphael Catfish Corydoras melanotaenia Festivum cichlid Pseudomugil paskai

Will eat this plant

These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.

Bengal Loach Zebra Loach Burmese Border Loach Emperor Botia Marbled Headstander Pellegrin's Leporinus Leporinus striatus False Black Tetra Common Metynnis Mylossoma duriventre Red Whiptail Catfish Moonlight Gourami Melanotaenia parva

Will uproot it

These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.

Marble Loach Peacock Eel Forktail Loach Guntea Loach Long-nosed Loach Horseface Loach Pearlscale Black Moor Goldfish Shubunkin Painted Pleco Featherfin Synodontis Reddish Mystus Catfish Blue Acara Geophagus altifrons Geophagus winemilleri Pearl Cichlid Red-spotted Cichlid Haplochromis philander Red Chromide Jack Dempsey cichlid

Matching water does not mean the fish will leave the plant alone.

Scientific and other names, conservation status

Other scientific names: Myriophyllum aquaticum, mannliche Pflanze, weibliche Pflanze, Myriophyllum brasiliense Cambess., Myriophyllum proserpinacoides Gillies ex Hook. & Arn., Enydria aquatica, Myriophyllum brasiliense, Myriophyllum mattogrossense, Myriophyllum proserpinacoides
Family: Haloragaceae