Echinodorus amazonicus
Submersed — Photo: Alan Minnery
Sword Amazon
- Scientific Name
- Echinodorus amazonicus
- Origin
- Brazil
- Temperature (°C)
- 24 - 28
- pH range
- 6.4 - 7.2
- Hardness (ppm)
- 30 - 170
- Light
- Medium
- Height
- 200 - 400mm
- Difficulty
- Less Demanding
- Notes
- Is typically submersed and grows best under water. This is the easiest to grow of all the sword plants but prefers a relatively high temperature.
- Propagation
- Removing and separating young plantlets from the floral stalk encourage speedy reproduction
- Source
- FNZAS