Thin pointed leaves radiating from a straight stem. Grown as a thick bush at the back of the tank it draws the eye, and it takes trimming better than most.
- Light
- medium–high
Native rangeRange on the map
- China Southeast
- Hainan
Tank conditions
- Leaf colour
- green
- Plant type
- stem plant
- Tolerates light
- medium – high
- Propagation
- cuttings
- Grows emersed
- yes
Care and keeping
Appearance
Narrow pointed leaves set around the stem, mid green. A single stem looks sparse; a dense group is what the plant is grown for.
Keeping
It wants good light and steady conditions — sharp changes in water make it melt, as with most pogostemons. Carbon dioxide is not required but improves the growth. Cut anywhere along the stem and two new shoots appear at the cut, so trimming is what builds the bush.
Placement
The back of the tank, in a group of several stems.
Propagation
By cuttings taken anywhere along the stem; the trimmings root in the substrate.
Scientific and other names, conservation status
- Other scientific names
- Dysophylla benthamiana intermedia, Dysophylla sampsonii, Dysophylla stellata intermedia, Eusteralis sampsonii
- Pogostemon sampsonii
- (Hance) Press
- Family
- Lamiaceae