Lobelia Cardinalis Mini
Lobelia Cardinalis Mini - Emersed is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Standard Shipping: Aquarium Plants are typically dispatched within 1 business day. Delivery times vary based on the destination. We do not ship live plants on Friday, unless specifically requested.
- Urban Areas: 1-3 business days
- Rural Areas: 2-5 business days
- Courier Services Used: NZ Post, NZ Couriers, Post Haste
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.
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We want you to shop with confidence knowing your plants are covered by our Live Arrival Guarantee. Every plant is hand-picked, quality-checked, and packed with care to ensure it reaches you in healthy condition.
Our Promise
- All live plants are guaranteed to arrive alive and healthy.
- If your plants arrive damaged, melted, or in poor condition, we’ll replace or refund them — no hassle.
- Just email us within 24 hours of delivery with clear photos of the affected plants and your order number.
Please Note
- The guarantee applies only to the initial delivery.
- Once the plants have been removed from their original packaging or planted into your aquarium, the guarantee no longer applies.
- We can’t take responsibility for plants left exposed to extreme heat, cold, or direct sunlight after delivery, so please choose a delivery address where someone can receive the parcel promptly.
We genuinely want your aquascape to thrive — and we’ll always do our best to make things right if something goes wrong.
Lobelia Cardinalis Mini
Lobelia Cardinalis Mini - Emersed is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Lobelia cardinalis 'Mini', a compact form of the plant often called dwarf lobelia, has small rounded leaves in fresh green and a tidy, low bushy habit. It stays much shorter than the standard form, which makes it a natural fit for the foreground or midground where you want a bit of soft green structure.
In your tank it grows in a neat, moderate way rather than racing upward, so it holds its shape and suits detail focused layouts like Dutch and nature style scapes. Trim the tops to keep it compact and encourage a bushier spread, and replant the cuttings to thicken the group. It appreciates a nutrient rich substrate and responds well to water column dosing, with a little extra iron helping the green stay strong. If you have earlier notes it sits happily around 20 to 28C and pH 6.0 to 7.5, and adapts to a range of hardness.
Care at a glance
- Placement: Foreground to midground
- Lighting: Low
- CO2: Low, not required
- Growth rate: Moderate
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Colour: Green
Our plants are harvested fresh and algae free, and the conversion to submerged form begins in our grow-out tanks so you get a head start on success once it settles into your aquarium.
Submerged means the plant has been grown underwater and is already adapted to life beneath the surface. Emersed means it was grown with its leaves above the water line, as many aquatic plants are farmed, and it will drop those leaves and push out new submerged growth after it settles in.
Difficulty: Beginner
Lighting Demand: Low
CO₂: Low
Growth Rate: Moderate
NZ Rarity:
Colour: Green
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