Description
This small, light green swordplant is the true Echinodorus schlueteri, however it is mostly labeled Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini' and also known among aquarists as "E. aschersonianus". The name E. schlueteri was misapplied for decades to another, bigger swordplant whose correct name is Echinodorus × maculatus. The true E. schlueteri turned out as a hybrid between E. × maculatus and E. reptilis, therefore it is also written E. × schlueteri.
The Mini swordplant is an easy aquarium plant that does not exceed a height of 25 cm. The submerged leaves are longish egg-shaped to slightly heart-shaped and unicoloured light to middle green. The emersed leaves are more roundish with longer stalk. A typical feature of this swordplant are often spirally twisted roots. Good lighting and nutrient supply provided, it forms dense, relatively low leaf rosettes. It is well suited to the midground or as small group in the foreground of bigger tanks. In nano tanks it can also be used as solitary plant in the mid- or background. Not seldom it develops long, thin inflorescences with adventitious plantlets.
Source
Flowgrow
Characteristic
Also known as Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini'
Small, light green swordplant
Ovate to cordate leaves
Recommendable for nano tanks
Undemanding
Complete Botanical Name
Echinódorus schluéteri Rataj
Family
Alismataceae
Genus
Echinodorus
Misapplied Names
Echinodorus aschersonianus, Echinodorus cordifolius 'Mini'
Category
Middle Ground
Difficulty
easy
Growth
medium
pH Value
5-7
Temperature Tolerance
15-30℃
Carbonate Hardness
0-21 dKH
General Hardness
0-30 °dGH
Propagation
Proliferating inflorescences, Rhizomteilung, Splitting, Cutting off daughter plants
Can Grow Emersed?
yes
Height
5-20 cm
Width
5-20 cm
