Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Giant Duckweed
Spirodela polyrhiza
Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature10–30 °C
- pH5.5–8
- Adult size1 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterFresh
Full profile
- Family
- Araceae
- Origin
- Cosmopolitan
- Size
- 0.5 – 1 cm
- Temperature
- 10 – 30°C
- pH
- 5.5 – 8.0
- GH
- 2 – 20 °dGH
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- average
- CO2
- Not required
- Fertilization
- low
- Growth
- very fast
- Position
- floating
- Propagation
- division
Notes: Larger than the common lentil, with a purple underside. It absorbs many nutrients and serves as food for herbivorous fish.
