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Arrowhead cereal is included in the number of plants of the family called chatids, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Sagittaria graminea. As for the very name of the cereal arrowhead family, it will be like this: Alismataceae.
Description of cereal arrowhead
Arrowhead cereal is both a shallow water plant and a marsh plant. As for the light regime, this plant prefers solar light regime. For a favorable cultivation of arrowhead cereal, you will need to choose a soil with high fertility. It is noteworthy that this plant is also edible. Under natural conditions, arrowhead cereal is found mainly in the United States, as well as in North America and Cuba. It should be noted that the plant was introduced to Australia: here the arrowhead cereal became a weed.
According to the development cycle, this plant is a perennial. The height of the cereal arrowhead can be about eighty centimeters - one meter. This plant is a fairly large variety of arrowhead and is endowed with rather characteristic lanceolate emergent leaves. The rhizomes of this plant will be large, and stolons and tubers are not formed in the arrowhead cereal. Not only flowers are endowed with decorative properties, but also the leaves of this plant.
The underwater leaves are broad-ribboned and pointed, and can be about thirty centimeters long and about four centimeters wide. Emerging leaves are on rather long petioles, which are clothed in triangular shapes. The length of the emergent leaves ranges between six and seventeen centimeters. The leaf blades are elongated lanceolate, they are endowed with a narrow base and a pointed apex. The length of such leaf blades will be about two and a half to seventeen centimeters, and the width will be approximately four centimeters. It is noteworthy that the peak of the decorativeness of the cereal arrowhead falls on the entire season, and this is especially true for the flowering period. The flowering of this plant occurs in the period from July to August. The flowers have three petals and are slightly more than three centimeters in diameter.
Inflorescences can be racemose or paniculate. Inflorescences are endowed with one to twelve whorls, such inflorescences are carried above the water on a flowering stem. The diameter of the cereal arrowhead fruit can reach from half a centimeter to one and a half centimeters.
Features of the care and cultivation of cereal arrowhead
Arrowhead cereal is recommended to be planted in containers, while the planting depth will fluctuate between twenty and thirty centimeters. With regard to soil, it is recommended to give preference to muddy soil. It is noteworthy that the plant is not endowed with special resistance to winter cold snaps. For this reason, for the winter period of time, the plant should be transferred to the reservoir of the winter garden, where the temperature of the water and air will be about fifteen to twenty degrees Celsius. In addition, the plant can be kept in an aquarium, where the temperature of the water and air will also be fifteen to twenty degrees Celsius, and the lighting will be quite good. Arrowhead cereal can also be kept in the basement.
Reproduction of this plant can occur both through seeds and by dividing the bush. As for vegetative propagation, in the summer period of time it is possible to divide the rhizomes.
Arrowhead cereal will look great in swamps, small mini-ponds, as well as in large terrariums and aquariums. Rhizomes and young shoots of Arrowhead cereal can be eaten.
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