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Hydrocotyle Verticillata

Umbrella plant with round, parasol-shaped leaves that forms a low, dense carpet.

Regular price $7.50
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Growth Form: Emersed
Emersed growth is grown with the leaves above the waterline, as it would appear along a shallow margin or in a paludarium.

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HighLight
MediumCO2
ModerateGrowth
IntermediateDifficulty

Placement Foreground carpet

Description

Hydrocotyle verticillata, the umbrella plant, has round, flat-topped leaves that look like miniature parasols or tiny lily pads, each rising on a thin vertical stem. It is a North and South American native that creeps low and horizontally across the substrate. This makes it a genuinely different-looking choice for the foreground of a planted tank.

In your tank it spreads by creeping runners to form a low, playful ground cover. Give it strong light and it stays compact and dense, filling in across the foreground and along low borders. CO2 helps it grow lusher and spread faster, and it will draw nutrients from both a rich substrate and the water column. It also does well grown emersed in shallow tanks and paludariums, where the umbrella leaves become even more defined. Trim and replant sections to guide where it fills in.

Care at a glance

  • Placement: Foreground carpet
  • Lighting: High
  • CO2: Medium
  • Growth rate: Moderate
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Colour: Green

Every plant is harvested fresh and algae free. Conversion to the submerged form starts in our grow-out tanks, which maximises success once it settles into your aquarium. Submerged growth is the form that lives fully underwater. Emersed growth is grown with the leaves above the waterline, as it would appear along a shallow margin or in a paludarium.

Specifications

  • NZ Rarity
    Uncommon
  • Colour
    Green
  • 5 stars: 3 (75%)
  • 4 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 1 (25%)
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Debrah steger (New Zealand)
very happy thankyou plants are great thankyou

very happy thankyou plants are great thankyou.

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Anonymous (New Zealand)
I bought these for my tropical fish tank and upon

I bought these for my tropical fish tank and upon arrival, when I unboxed them and was getting ready to add them into my fish tank they just fell into pieces, they were impossible to try and separate the bunches and in the end they were all broken and so I could no longer add them into my tank. I wouldn’t recommend them for your tank

Hi there, we're sorry to hear about your experience with the Hydrocotyle Verticillata. Was there an issue with the quality of the plant or did you just found it too hard to untangle and in the process of doing so broke most of the leaves off?

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Matthew Moir (New Zealand)
Very healthy largr bunch of plants

Upon receiving these plants. They arrived very healthy. This is a huge bunch, many more than I expected. I have ordered hundreds of dollars' worth of plants and equipment from The Aquascape shop. Every order has arrived promptly, complete with tracking, well packaged, and above all, very healthy. I highly recommend this and any other product sold by this company

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Colin KELLY (New Zealand)
Happy with these plants.

Doing well in the aquarium.