Myriophyllum aquaticum var. santacatarinense

Myriophyllum aquaticum

A variety of parrot’s feather from the state of Santa Catarina in southeastern Brazil. Less demanding than the ordinary form: it has fewer leaf segments, they are wider, the colour is a lighter green, and it grows out of the water less readily.

Light: medium–high
Difficulty: very 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

It has fewer leaf segments, and they are wider than in the ordinary form; the colour is a lighter green, slightly red-brown under strong light. It is less prone to growing out of the water. Its emergent shoots are noticeably smaller than those of the ordinary form, but with the same blue-green, water-repellent leaves. It differs from 'Green' by a lighter green colour and wider feathery segments.

Keeping

Very easy — less demanding than the ordinary form. Growth very fast, light medium to strong, CO₂ 10–40 mg/l, temperature 15–25 °C.

Placement

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

Trade names

It was introduced to the hobby first as Myriophyllum aquaticum 'Santa Catarina', and later described as a variety of the species. It does not appear to be in the trade yet — it is found only from other hobbyists.

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