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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANTS
Cryptocoryne ciliata (Cryptocoryne ciliated)
Araceae (Araceae) family.
The spread from India to New Guinea.
Bog plants, surface of 50 - 90 cm, underwater up to 50 cm in height. Diploid plants form sprouts, triploid forms develop short, upright offspring that bud from the roots. Petiole up to 40 cm from the leaf blade narrow lanceolate to uzkoyaytsevidnoy shape, length 15 -. 25 (50) cm, a width of 2 - 7 (20) cm, leathery, fleshy, solid, vertical, smooth, green. Apex acute to acicular; base wedge-shaped, heart-shaped, or lopped.
Coversheet 10 - 50 cm in length. . Tube 4 - 40 cm plate covers highly variable, 3 - 10 cm long, pointed, untwisted, erect, from the inside of the irregularities to the surface roughness, from pale yellow to brownish-purple; edge of the sheet is covered with long cilia. Collar yellow. Zev pale yellow, with red speckles. Female flowers 4 - 8. The male flowers of 20 - 120. The number of chromosomes 2n = 22.33.
Very fast growing Cryptocoryne suitable only for high aquariums. Attract the attention of hard, erect leaf outlines. Cryptocoryne ciliata suitable for freshwater aquariums and aquarium with brackish water, as well as for content palyudariumov. For breeding in the aquarium soil should be nutritious. It recommended by well-lighted place. The optimum temperature of 22 - 26 C. If submerged reproduction rate is low, the water part, on the other hand, readily produces offspring. Most forms of inflorescence and fruit. Propagation by seed is very productive.
Cryptocoryne ciliated settles in fresh and brackish waters in the tidal zone on the muddy ground.
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