Kabomba water , cabomba ordinary ( lat. Cabomba aquatica ) - aquatic plant ; species of the genus Cabomba ( Cabomba ).
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Cabomba aquatica aubl. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Its low-flowing and stagnant waters of Guiana , Brazil, and South America in general are considered to be its birthplace, but, in addition, it also occasionally comes across in Florida and Louisiana .
Morphological description
The rhizome of its creeping, creeping, letting the stems from the nodes. The stems first rise to the top, but then fall down under their weight and fork forked.
The main originality of cabombs is represented by its underwater leaves , which are not solid, but fan-shaped, finely dissected, like the leaves of a peristomist ( Myriophyllum ), or water buttercup ( Ranunculus aquatilis ). Their color, depending on the variety, is either brilliantly metallic metallic dark green ( Cabomba viridifolia hort. Ex Gentil ), or reddish ( Cabomba rosaefolia ).
In addition to these leaves, there are also small small, coarsely cut, somewhat leathery ones in the cabomba. In aquarium plants, they appear very rarely.
The flowers are small, silvery-white with a yellow middle or just yellowish with three petals and three sepals . Sepals green outside, but from the same color as the petals. Flowers solitary, axillary, one out on the long leg from the leaf axil and blooming above water at a height of about five centimeters. After flowering, petals and sepals bend outwards to the pedicel . Flowering occurs in early spring, in April or May.
Growing
Kabomba propagates easily: with pieces of stem or rhizomes , each of which is equipped with a bundle of roots. Such pieces are put in pots with a mixture of turfy earth and sand and put on the bottom of the aquarium. It grows bad in hard water.
Light Cabomba loves quite strong and often turns yellow in the shade.
In winter, the stalks of cabomba quite often turn off and float to the surface of the water. But they should not be removed, but simply left to swim until spring. Then young roots will appear in their leaf axils and each knee, being cut and planted on the bottom, gives a new plant. The best water temperature for it is from +20 to +25 ° C.
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
Literature
- Zolotnitsky NF Amateur Aquarium . - M: Terra, 1993. - 784 p. - ISBN 5-85255-405-7 . (inaccessible link)
The article uses the text of N. F. Zolotnitsky, which has passed into public domain