Blood Heart Orchid
Amaranthaceae aquatic plants are annual or perennial herbs, with a small number of high-climbing vines or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, slightly toothed, without stipules. Flowers are small, bisexual or unisexual, common or dioecious, or heterosexual, occasionally degenerating into sterile flowers. Flowers are clustered in the leaf axils and formed into scattered or aggregated spike-like catkins, capitate catkins, racemose catkins or conical catkins. ; Bract 1 and bracteolet 2, membranous, green or colored; tepals 3-5, membranous, imbricate arrangement, often shed with fruits, rarely persist.
1. St. Paul's Blood Heart Orchid
San Pauline blood heart orchid is native to Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is a dicotyledonous plant and an emergent aquatic plant. The appearance is very similar to the ordinary blood heart orchid, and it is even more like a water plant. It is almost indistinguishable. Since it was transferred to water, its leaves have turned orange-red, and the underside of the leaves has been dark peach-red, which is its biggest characteristic. It mostly grows from the lateral buds produced after cuttings and prunings. The requirements for lighting and carbon dioxide are high, and if the color is not timely, it is easy to develop poorly. The leaves fall off or melt easily when the temperature is low, and have strong adaptability to water quality.
2. Purple Polygonum
Polygonum violaceum
Polygonum purpurea is a plant of the genus Polygonum native to Brazil. The above-water leaves are bright green, while the submerged leaves are purple-red in color, which is quite beautiful. It is a kind of Liake water with extremely high tourist value.Grass. If you want to maintain the purple color of the leaves, you must have sufficient lighting and carbon dioxide, otherwise the plants will be stunted and the leaves will be thin and green. Breeding is difficult, and only weakly acidic soft water can be used for cultivation. Strong light and abundant carbon dioxide are necessary conditions, and the water temperature should not be too high, otherwise growth will be interrupted. Can grow through lateral buds.
3. Blood Heart Orchid
The blood heart orchid is an emergent plant of the Amaranthaceae family. The stems grow upright and forward, and the leaves grow opposite each other at the stem nodes. They are 5-8 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, and lanceolate. The leaves are brown to dark red with pointed ends. The stems and leaves are normal and also brown to dark red. Eye-catching red leaves can only grow under strong light. In the aquatic plant tank, the leaf color is mostly red on the back of the leaf, and olive green or pink on the leaf surface. It can grow out of the water in open-type aquatic plants. After adding carbon dioxide, the growth rate will be faster. It mostly grows from the lateral buds produced after cuttings and prunings. Likes weakly acidic soft water and has high requirements for lighting and carbon dioxide. When the temperature is low, the leaves fall off easily, and if the color is weak, the growth will be poor, making breeding more difficult.
4. Green Blood Heart Orchid
Green blood heart orchid is a dicotyledonous plant native to Southeast Asia and an emergent aquatic plant. Waterweed has cross-opposed lanceolate leaves, both sides of the leaves are green, and white spherical clusters can grow in the leaf axils. Water grass is similar in shape to water grass, but the leaves are wider, the leaves are often olive green, the bottoms of the leaves are purple-red, and the stems are blood red. Growing in a tank that does not output carbon dioxide may be more difficult. If the light intensity is reduced, the breeding rate can be improved. If the temperature is too low (such as below 20℃), the leaves will easily fall and even wither. The best water quality is weakly acidic soft water, and the hardness should not be too high. Its root system is quite developed and needs to be compensated for root fat immediately.
5. Broad-leaved Blood Heart Orchid
Blood Heart Orchid
Latifolia bloodheart orchid is a dicotyledonous plant and an emergent aquatic plant. When Blood Heart Orchid is used as an aquatic plant, its appearance is very similar to that of Blood Heart Orchid. The color of Blood Heart Orchid is larger than that of Blood Heart Orchid. The leaves are mostly green and the bottom of the leaves is red. The leaves are cross-shaped, and white spherical clusters of flowers grow from the leaf axils. When the aquatic grass of Blood Heart Orchid is moved to water for planting, it is not easy to turn directly into aquatic grass, and it is easy to lose its leaves. Fortunately, new aquatic life will soon grow. When Blood Heart Orchid is used as an aquatic plant, it is very different from the aquatic plant in both shape and color, and sometimes it is mistaken for other species. The color of the underwater world will change due to different environments, which is of great value for observation. The requirements for water quality, lighting, carbon dioxide, feed, etc. are strict, which is suitable for high-concentration carbon dioxide farming in strong light, soft water, and soft water.
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