The Amazon sword plant (bot. Echinodorus bleheri or bleherae) is a very popular plant for freshwater aquariums. Under good conditions in a sufficiently large aquarium, it reaches an impressive size and stretches its extraordinary flowers out of the water.
What do the flowers of the Amazon sword plant look like?
The flowers of the Amazon sword plant (Echinodorus bleheri) are white, have a diameter of about 1.5 cm and do not form fruit clusters. Instead, daughter plants grow on the inflorescences, which enable easy propagation.
What do the flowers look like?
The flowers of the Amazon sword plant are relatively small with a diameter of about 1.5 centimeters. They do not form fruit heads. However, small daughter plants grow on the inflorescences, through which the sword plant can be easily propagated. The small plants usually grow well and are very easy to care for.
The most important things in brief:
- relatively large plant, up to 60 cm high
- small flowers, up to approx. 1.5 cm in diameter
- Flower color white
- sterile flowers, so no fruit set
- forms daughter plants on the inflorescences, making them easy to propagate
Tip
The Amazon sword plant also blooms in a swamp bed at appropriate temperatures, and then even more luxuriantly than directly in water.
