Aquatic Plant Encyclopedia

Charming floating plant with round leaves. Simply float on surface for easy care. Long trailing roots provide shelter for fry and shrimp. Excellent water purification.

A representative aquatic plant with large sword-shaped leaves. Gives strong presence as background centerpiece.

The type variety of Anubias barteri, with broad, thick, leathery leaves. It grows larger than var. nana and even young plants can be told apart by their longer petioles. Tough enough to survive herbivorous fish and dim tanks.

An Anubias whose leaf blades bulge strongly between the veins, like coffee leaves. New leaves emerge orange- to red-brown and turn dark green. It often flowers under water.

A dwarf selection of Anubias nana. At about 5 cm tall its small leaves pack tightly into a compact, bonsai-like mound, suitable for stones and wood even in tanks of around 10 litres.

A selection of Anubias nana whose new leaves emerge light green to golden yellow, clearly unlike the dark green standard form. Leaves darken in weak light. It traces back to a mutant found at a Taiwanese nursery.

A nana selection with some of the smallest leaves of any Anubias. Narrow dark green leaves overlap like the scales of a pangolin. Selected from 'Bonsai' stock, it suits the hardscape of nano tanks.

An even smaller variety of Anubias Nana. Tiny densely packed leaves, ideal for nano tanks.

A unique plant with banana-bunch-like thick storage roots. Charming when producing floating leaves.

A Bornean Bucephalandra with narrow, strongly wavy dark leaves sprinkled with silvery dots, wine-red rhizomes and young petioles, and a blue metallic sheen underwater. Relatively vigorous for a Buce.

A traded Bucephalandra with dense obovate, round-tipped leaves. Submerged leaves are red-brown to purple with a bluish sheen and silvery stomatal dots. It branches into a low, compact clump.

A moss branching in triangle like Christmas tree. Creates more three-dimensional scape than regular moss.

Root-dwelling plant from Southeast Asia. Many varieties with subtle beauty. May melt with environmental changes but recovers.

A Malay Peninsula Cryptocoryne with silky dark green leaves, a pale midrib and a wine-red to purple underside. It grows in low light without CO2 and spreads by underground runners into dense stands.