Leaf colourgreen
Native range
- Argentina Northeast
- Bolivia
- Brazil Northeast
- Brazil North
- Brazil Southeast
- Brazil South
- Brazil West-Central
- Cuba
- Guyana
- Paraguay
- Venezuela
rosette red accent midground
A night-flowering water lily from tropical South America with relatively small round leaves. Rare in the hobby, and easily confused with its green-leaved relatives.
- Light
- medium–high
- Difficulty
- medium
- Temperature
- 18 – 30 °C
Parameters
Plant typerosette
Growth ratefast
Tolerates lightmedium – high
Carbonate hardness0 – 10 °dKH
Placementred accent, midground
Propagationrunners
Grows emersedunknown
Appearance
Rounded leaves on long stalks from a tuber, smaller than those of the familiar lilies. Two plants circulate in the hobby under this name, one of them brought from Bolivia and one known by a Brazilian place name.
Keeping
It wants a nutritious substrate and medium to strong light; warm water suits it. As with all lilies in a tank, the leaves that reach the surface shade everything beneath them and are trimmed off if the plant is grown for its underwater leaves.
Placement
The middle or back of a large tank, alone.
Propagation
By daughter tubers formed beside the parent.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 1016 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 BotiaMarbled 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
Cultivars
The same plant with a different look: light, water and care are shared with the species.
Other varieties: Nymphaea gardneriana Santarem, Nymphaea gardneriana Santarem Einzelpflanze