Echinodorus ‘Hadi Red Pearl’ – Unpotted Plants (Imported from Singapore)

‘Hadi Red Pearl’ is a quite new, especially distinctive swordplant cultivar. It is also labeled as ‘Harbich Red’ in trade. It is described as an especially small plant, hardly exceeding a height of 10 cm and a width of 15 cm. However, in our experience, it may get about 20 cm high and 40 cm wide when it is sumptuously supplied with nutrients, CO₂ and light. Nevertheless, it keeps a compact, rather low growth habit with numerous short stalked leaves. The plant has a medium growth rate. The submerged leaves are coarse, narrowly elliptic with round tip. Newly appearing leaves are ruby red, getting brown red to dark green with increasing age.
The plant is mostly delivered in its emersed (terrestrial) form. The aerial leaves are broader, with brown-red coloration and few oblong darker spots on the newest leaves. After planting into the aquarium, the narrower submerged leaves will appear, without spot pattern.

Care Level: Easy
Lighting: Low-Moderate
Placement: Midground/Background