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Stratiotes aloides
Leaves resemble those of aloe, light green, coarsely toothed, succulent, up to 15–50 cm long, up to 4 cm wide and 1 cm thick. Flowers white, up to 4 cm in diameter, unisexual.
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Polygonum alpinum
Spreads into large sprawling shrubs up to 150 cm tall. Stems numerous, branched in the upper part. Leaves lanceolate-ovate.
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Potamogeton alpinus
A very variable species: when submerged it may completely lose its floating leaves, and when the water body dries it takes a terrestrial form with leathery leaves narrowed into petioles.
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Rorippa amphibia
Amphibious yellowcress (Rorippa amphibia) – a perennial herbaceous aquatic plant of the Cabbage family (Brassicáceae).
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Anubias barteri
Occurs: along the banks of rivers, streams and swamps of West and Central Africa, and the island of Bioko (Fernando Po). Can grow emersed or with roots in the water and shoots above it.
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Aponogeton
The genus comprises about 25 species native to the tropics of Africa, Asia and northern Australia and to the subtropics of southern Africa. Perennials with thick tuberous rhizomes.
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Aponogeton crispus
Native to the island of Sri Lanka and southern India, where it inhabits standing and slow‑flowing waters. The plant is noted for its high ornamental value.
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Aponogeton distachyos
Aponogeton dvukolosy is a two-ranked, wild-growing plant. In its natural habitat Aponogeton dvukolosy grows in dense populations in bodies of water with still or slow-moving water.
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Aponogeton longiplumulosus
Aponogeton leathery-leaved is found in the northwestern part of the island of Madagascar.
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Sagittaria
An aquatic and marsh plant that prefers gley soils and fresh peat bogs. Arrowhead can serve as an example of group ecological dimorphism: plants located in water at depths of more than one and a half meters
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Nuphar sagittifolium
Arrowleaf Waterlily is a beautiful plant rarely seen among aquarists. It forms a long creeping rhizome from which delicate light-green, large, arrow-shaped leaves with strongly ruffled edges arise, reaching up to 30–35 …
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Geum
Perennial rhizomatous herbaceous plants. Stems erect. Leaves lyrate-pinnate, arranged in a basal rosette; stem leaves ternate or three-parted.
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Azolla
Family Azollaceae. Tiny ferns from tropical waters of the Americas, floating on the water surface.
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Azollaceae
The family includes a single genus of small delicate heterosporous ferns that float on the water surface.
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Васора caroliniana
Bacopa caroliniana is a long-stemmed plant with bright green succulent oval leaves up to 2.5 cm long, arranged in opposite pairs on the stems.
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Polygonum
Name: derived from the Greek words 'polys' - many and 'gonos' - knee/joint; given for the knotty, jointed stem.
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Nymphaea Coerulea
This waterlily is the sacred lotus that was depicted in Egypt on ancient coins, walls, ornaments, paintings, and tombstones. The flowers are blue, fragrant, 15-20 cm in diameter.
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Brasenia schreberi
From long horizontal rhizomes the stems rise almost to the surface, bearing alternate leaves on long petioles with floating shield-shaped blades.
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Menyanthes
Perennial herbaceous plant, 15—35 cm tall, with a thick, rather long rhizome. Stem creeping, jointed, branching.
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Cabomba
Cabomba are aquatic and marsh plants with very attractive opposite, finely divided, fan-shaped underwater leaves.
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Cabomba caroliniana
In nature, Cabomba caroliniana occurs from North to South America. It grows in standing and flowing bodies of water with flow from slow to fast, at depths down to 1.5 m.
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Calla palustris
This is a perennial herbaceous plant with creeping or prostrate shoots 10—25 cm high. The rhizome is green, jointed, creeping, hollow and thick; it spreads along the soil surface. It branches; adventitious fibrous roots…
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Polygonum amplexicaule
Perennial, bushy plant. Stems erect, 80-120 cm tall. Leaves broad, lanceolate, green, turning yellow in autumn. Inflorescences ruby-red, in long, densely packed spikes.
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Polygonum capilatum
Knotweed is warmth-loving and moisture-loving, grows well in the sun. When grown in partial shade the leaves acquire a less decorative coloration.
