Hygrophila Corymbosa Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials)
Hygrophila Corymbosa Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials) is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Standard Shipping: Orders are typically dispatched within 1 business day. Delivery times vary based on the destination.
- Urban Areas: 1-3 business days
- Rural Areas: 2-5 business days
- Courier Services Used: NZ Post and Aramex.
Free shipping is available for New Zealand customers with a minimum purchase of $150.00.
- Non-Rural Addresses Only: This offer applies only to non-rural addresses.
- Exclusions: Bulky items such as aquariums are excluded from the free shipping offer.
About Tissue Culture Plants
About Tissue Culture Plants
What’s the Deal with Tissue Culture Plants?
Tiny plants. Big benefits. Zero unwanted surprises.
Grown in a Lab (On Purpose)
These aren’t your average aquarium plants.
Tissue culture plants are grown in pristine lab conditions — no pests, no snails, no algae. Just vibrant, healthy growth suspended in a sealed pot of nutrient gel that looks like dessert (but please, don’t).
Why They’re a Big Deal
- 100% algae-free — start clean, stay clean
- No snails — unless you’re into surprise hitchhikers
- Pesticide-free — safe for shrimp, snails, and sensitive fish
- Incredible value — you get heaps of plant once it’s split and planted
- Long shelf life — lasts weeks sealed in its cup (great for planning your scape)
- Small in size, big on payoff
How to Use (Don’t Just Chuck It In)
Peel the lid — it’ll feel oddly satisfying
- Rinse off the gel (do not plant the goo)
- Divide into small chunks — trust us, there’s more than it looks
- Plant using tweezers, spaced evenly across the substrate
- Watch it take off like it’s been waiting its whole life to grow in your tank
Pro tip: One pot can cover a surprising amount of space — plant wisely and it’ll spread quickly.
Hygrophila Corymbosa Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials)
Hygrophila Corymbosa Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials) is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Lab Grown, Algae Free, Snail Free.
Grown in sterile conditions with no snails, algae, or hitchhikers — the cleanest start for any freshwater tank.
Great Value in Every Cup
Each tissue culture cup contains multiple portions — simply rinse, divide, and plant. One pot can cover more ground than you'd expect!
Hygrophila corymbosa better known as Temple Plant or Giant Hygro is a classic broad-leaved stem plant that brings instant, jungle-like fullness to the back of a planted tank. Its large, lance-shaped leaves sit a soft light green on top with a warm bronze-red flush underneath when grown under brighter light. Vigorous, adaptable and famously hard to kill, it's one of the best stem plants for a first aquascape and a dependable green backdrop for seasoned hobbyists.
Why aquascapers reach for it
- Fast, reliable growth that fills vertical space and softens hardscape quickly
- Broad, lush foliage for a natural jungle or Dutch-style look
- A workhorse for new tanks — soaks up excess nutrients and helps starve out algae while your scape establishes
- Forgiving across a wide range of light, CO₂ and water conditions
Lab-grown and 100% pest-free
Every cup is propagated in vitro under sterile laboratory conditions, so your plants arrive completely free of snails, nuisance algae, parasites and pesticide residue. That makes them genuinely safe to add to shrimp tanks and other invertebrate setups no quarantine and no hitchhikers. You also get multiple healthy plantlets per cup, ready to be split and spread across your layout.
Care at a glance
- Difficulty: Easy
- Placement: Background
- Lighting: Low to High
- CO₂: Not required (beneficial)
- Growth rate: Fast
- Max height: 25–45 cm
- Temperature: 22–28 °C
- pH: 6.0–7.5
- Water hardness: Soft to hard
- Propagation: Stem cuttings
In your aquascape
Plant it along the background where it has headroom to grow tall. Set the stems in small groups and let them bush together into a dense green wall, or keep it trimmed lower as a midground filler. It pairs beautifully with red stem plants and fine-leaved species, which set off its broad leaf shape.
Planting & acclimation
- Lift the plant from the cup and gently rinse the clear nutrient gel from the base, gel left on the roots can cloud the tank or invite mould.
- Divide into small portions of 3–5 stems.
- Using planting tweezers, insert each portion into the substrate, spacing them a few centimetres apart to leave room to fill in.
- As stems reach the surface, trim the tops and replant the cuttings to thicken the stand.
Pro tip: Hygrophila corymbosa is a hungry plant. Root tabs or a nutrient-rich substrate keep it lush, and a complete liquid fertiliser prevents the small pinholes in older leaves.
Difficulty: Beginner
Lighting Demand: Moderate
CO₂: Low
Growth Rate: Moderate
NZ Rarity: Common
Colour: Orange
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