Eleocharis vivipara
Tall hairgrass
Eleocharis vivipara
Tall hairgrass
- Impressive grasslike background plant
- Very thin, long stems
- Very popular in aquascaping
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Description
The Tall Hairgrass forms hair-thin long leaves. On the leaf tips, adventitious plants are formed. Eleocharis vivipara is ideal for planting higher "meadows" in the back of the aquascape.
Characteristics
Eleocharis vivipara is a sedge from the southern and south-eastern USA whose thread-like culms can reach 100 cm in length underwater.4 Tufts of young plants develop at the culm tips, which is also what the specific epithet (“live-bearing”) alludes to.124 As a result, a dense, expansive tangle of culms can form over time; the umbrella-like growth habit looks best in tall tanks.34
In aquascapes it creates a tall, grass-like area in the background and can also be used in the midground.1 According to one hobbyist report, trimmed culms keep growing, but cut-off culms cannot be used as cuttings because the culms arise from a creeping rhizome. ()
| Synonyms | Eleocharis curtisii Small |
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| Complete botanical name | Eleócharis vivípara Link |
| Family | Cyperaceae |
| Genus | Eleocharis |
| Difficulty | medium |
| Usage | Background, Midground |
| Growth | medium |
| pH value | 4.5 - 7 |
| Temperature tolerance | 5 - 29°C |
| Carbonate hardness | 2 - 5°dKH |
| General hardness | 0 - 30°dGH |
| Propagation | Proliferating inflorescences, Splitting, cutting off daughter plants |
| Can grow emersed? | yes |
| Source | Flowgrow |
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A nice ground cover plant. Easy to care for. Really very hardy and also good to place in the midground.
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Bodendecker
Ein schöner Bodendecker. Pflegeleicht. wirklich sehr unempfindlich und auch gut im Mittelgrund zu setzen.
Everything was great, it came in perfect condition. Its a very beautiful and easy plant to have in your tank.
the tallest eleocharis we usually find, it gives a wild, light touch to aquascapes, it can be combined with other background plants like C.
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natural y fresca
la mas alta de la eleocharis que solemos encontrar, da un toque silvestre y ligero a los aquascape, se puede confinar con otras plantas traseras como C. crispatura, o Vallisneria nana para crear un juego de texturas
