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Hydrochariticeae
(Frog-Bit) Frog-Bit multiplies like crazy. I know that many people use it in outdoor ponds, but this is a terrific plant for use in aquariums. Bubble nest fish builders use it to build nests under it. It provides shade for those plants that are getting too much light. It’s a great plant, like most floating plants, to take up the excess nutrients in your water to avoid algae blooms (green water). They are also considered to be aquarium purifiers as they keep your water clean and clear. Anyone can grow Frog-Bit since you won’t have to do much to get it to grow other than plop it on top of your water in your tank! FROG-BIT, the plant has rosettes of roundish floating leaves, and multiplie like the strawberry plant by means of runners, at the end of which new leaf-rosettes develop. Staminate and pistillat flowers are borne on different plants; they have three smal green sepals and three broadly ovate white membranous petals. Frog-bit is a free-floating aquatic plant that resembles a miniature water lily. Originally from Europe and Asia, it is currently found primarily in eastern Ontario and isolated locations in central and western Ontario. Frog-bit belongs to the family Hydrochariticeae (Frog-bit Family). It has a single white flower approximately 1.5 cm (.6 in) in diameter with three rounded petals and a yellow centre. The leaves of the plant are round, and heart shaped, (the size of a Canadian two-dollar coin) with veins coming off the mid-vein that arch broadly following the shape of the leaf. The undersides of the leaves are dark purplish-red and have a spongy coating, which helps the plant float on top of the water. Roots can range from 10-20 cm (3.9 - 7.9 in) but do not penetrate or anchor this free-floating plant to the bottom. |
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