Madagascar Lace Plant
This plant needs lots of nutrients readily available at its roots so extra precautions should be taken to make this happen.
Madagascar lace plant. The madagascar lace plant is among the most sought after of aquarium plants as its latticelike leaves and majestic size make it a true centerpiece. The leaf blade is 15 55 cm in length and 5 16 cm in width. It is endangered in the wild.
We can not recommend or advise purchasing a madagascar lace plant without dirt as your lower substrate. The tuber is exhausted and the plant dies. Basionym aponogeton madagascariensis is commonly known as madagascar laceleaf lattice leaf or lace plant.
As its name suggests the lace plant hails from the massive island of madagascar off the southeast coast of africa. They also only propagate from seed making it difficult to reproduce them in aquariums. Dividing the crown of a large healthy plant is a.
New lace plants will grow around the parent plant. Like most aponogeton madagascar lace plants are easy to grow in the aquarium. Commonly known as the madagascar lace plant the defining characteristic of is this species of aponogeton is the lack of connective tissue that forms the surface of its leaves and lends the plant a somewhat delicate and lacy appearance.
The leaves are a unique lace like structure with greenish color which extends parallel under the surface of the water. The madagascar lace plant is quite hard to cultivate and few people are able to keep it going more than one season. Madagascar lace plants do take a little bit more skill to keep and require an excellent substrate to thrive.
Madagascar lace plants can tolerate most light levels however if the light is bright you will want to make sure that it is shaded by other plants or decorations. It is an aquatic plant native to madagascar popularly sold for use in aquariums. This is a slow process taking three to four years to produce a full size plant from seed.
The skeletal appearance of the leaves belies the toughness of this unusual plant. It has been naturalized in mauritius as well. Madagascar lace plant is a perennial aquatic plant that bears tuberous rhizomes with 3 cm in diameter.
Early descriptions advised a need for calm water probably due to the misleadingly delicate appearance of its leaves. It has oblong type leaves with up to 65 cm in length.
