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Aponogeton ulvaceus
The plant grows both in still bodies of water and in fast-flowing waters, in soft and sometimes calcareous water at depths down to 80 cm, in both shaded and sunny locations at elevations up to 1250 m above sea level.
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Vallisneria
Vallisneria are dioecious aquatic plants with ribbon-like, long leaves. Vallisneria is widely used in landscape design for greening large aquariums and pools.
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Vallisneria nana
An attractive plant with dark-green narrow leaves. Especially suitable for both the midground and the background in small aquariums.
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Hygrophila difformis
Variable Hygrophila is widespread in Southeast Asia. It grows in swamps, along the edges of water bodies and in rice paddies, introduced from Thailand.
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Veraunica
Some believe the plant is named after Saint Veronica; others that it derives from the Latin 'vera unica' — the true remedy. The stress falls on the second syllable.
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Victoria
Victoria are beautiful ornamental plants, striking with their huge floating leaves, reaching 2.5-3 m in diameter in their native range.
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Polygonum virginianum
Greenish-white flowers appear in late summer and are of little value to the gardener. It is most ornamental in full sun; light partial shade is acceptable.
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Polygonum viviparum
A low (10-15 cm) bushy perennial plant with narrow elongated petiolate leaves gathered in basal rosettes.
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Batrachium trichophyllum
Perennial rooting plant. Varies in height; with submerged fan-shaped dark green leaves finely divided into threadlike segments, in some species somewhat stiff, sticking together when removed from the water, in others no…
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Nymphaea
Water lily (Nymphaea). The water-lily family - Nymphaeaceae. Water lilies are perennial herbaceous aquatic plants.
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Mentha aquatica
This is a perennial herbaceous plant up to 90 cm tall. Stems are hairy, square in cross-section. Leaves are oval, 2–6 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, sometimes taking on a reddish tint. When crushed they emit a characteristic …
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Alísma
Members of the genus are perennial (rarely annual) herbaceous plants. The rhizome is very short and thick
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Stratiotes
A beautiful floating plant, attached by its roots to the bottom of a pond at a shallow depth for most of the time. Twice a year — during flowering in July and at the end of August, when daughter rosettes appear, it rise…
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Nasturtium (Rorippa)
Watercress is a fast-growing perennial aquatic or semi-aquatic plant of the Brassicaceae (cabbage) family, distributed from Europe to Central Asia. It has been used since ancient times as a leafy vegetable.
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Aponogeton stachysporus
Habitat - ponds, ditches, swamps. The rhizome is tuberous in form; translucent leaves with a patterned design and a narrowed tip reach 25 cm in length and 4 cm in width.
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Polygonum weyrichii
Occurs in the wild on grassy slopes of Sakhalin, the Kurils and Japan.
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Nelumbo lutea
Water-lily family. Native range: Yellow lotus - the western and southern parts of the USA.
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Nuphar lutea
The plant is also known as the yellow water-lily, yellow kupava, nuphar, waterlet, water-lily, yellow vakhtovik, water burdock.
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Bolbtis hendelotii
Among aquarists, Болбитис Геделоти is an ornamental and popular fern.
