Giant Duckweed, (Spirodela polyrhiza)- 20 + Live Floating, Oxygenating Plant for your Aquarium and Pond

Name : Giant Duckweed, (Spirodela polyrhiza)- 20 + Live Floating, Oxygenating Plant for your Aquarium and Pond

Net Quantity (N) : 1

Product Breadth : 8.5 Cm

Product Height : 8.5 Cm

Product Length : 8.5 Cm

Product Weight : 0.5 Kg

Type : Herbs

Spirodela polyrhiza is a perennial aquatic plant usually growing in dense colonies, forming a mat on the water surface. Each plant is a smooth, round, flat disc 0.5 to 1.0 cm wide. Its upper surface is mostly green, sometimes red, while the lower surface is dark red. It produces several minute roots and a pouch containing male and female flowers. The top part dies in the fall and the plant often overwinters as a turion. The turion sinks to the bottom of the water body and stays in a dormant phase until the water temperature reaches 15 °C. The turions then germinate on the bottom of the water body and start a new life cycle. As this species lives in ponds and slow-moving water bodies, differs developmentally from terrestrial plants in morphology and physiology. It undergoes mainly vegetative growth in spring and summer, forming new fronds. Spirodela polyrhiza rarely flowers. In fall and winter, it switches into a dormant phase represented by the turions due to nutrition starvation and freezing temperatures. Spirodela polyrhiza can be used for bioremediation, removing toxic substances from the aquatic environment as well as cleaning eutrophic waters, especially in wastewater treatment plants. Its uses as biofuel and animal feed are also gaining importance. It is hardly used for human nutrition. Giant Duckweed is easy to grow and is fine with low-light setups, although more light

Country of Origin : India