Hydrocotyle hydrophila
Endemic
- Scientific Name
- Hydrocotyle hydrophila
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- short
- Taxonomy
- Petrie
- Presence
- North and South Island. From the Auckland southwards
- Habitat
- Margins of lakes, lagoons, streams, and sandy river flats
- Temperature (°C)
- cold water aquaria
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- Propagation
- Stem cuttings (including a node)
- Features
- Fine herb with leaves occuring singly or in tufts on a delicate creeping rhizome. The leaves (3 to 6 mm diam.) are birght green and glossy on a slender petiole (ca 3 cm long). The leaves are divided into leaflets (3 foliate) that have entire margins. The flowers occur as umbels (1 to 2).
- Source
- TIFBIS