Plants

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Japanese Blyxa

Blyxa japonica

A beautiful plant for planted aquariums, "popularized" by Takashi Amano in his aquarium compositions.

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Japanese spatterdock

Nuphar japonicum

Japanese spatterdock is a beautiful ornamental plant. The submerged form has attractive, broad-at-the-base, deeply divided, arrow-shaped leaves. Coloration is glossy green; in one subspecies it is reddish-brown.

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Java moss

Vesicularia dubyana

Java moss - grows in the tropics of Southeast Asia. Forms mats. Long, heavily branched stems reach 50 cm.