Growing Giant Hygro (Hygrophila Corymbosa) In The Aquarium

This species comes from south-eastern part of Asia. It is a muddy-aquatic plant. Its natural habitats are shallow, standing and slow-moving reservoirs with swampy or silty bottom, floodplains.

This species is similar to Hygrophila corymbosa Thailand. Differences are in shape, size and colour of their leaves. Described species has strong, ligneous stem with opposite, wide, dense leaves with pointed tips. Colour of the leaves depend on light intensity and light color. It can be from green to red. Wild plants grow partially submersed so they bloom. Then they have fine and delicate, blue-violet flowers.

In aquarium the species is completely submerged but it can grow above the water surface. Then bottom leaves often fall because they don't have enough light. So we should systematic cut the tops of the plant. The species prefers systematic partial water changes.

It should be planted in the middle or at the back of the aquarium in groups of several pieces at distance of minimum 20 centimeters between seedlings.

This is spermatophyte plant but in aquarium we reproduce it vegetatively – by seedlings from cut stems.