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Woolly Bacopa lives in picturesque Brazilian waters. As a rule, she prefers swampy and humid areas, especially with stagnant water. Sometimes this aquatic beauty is also called hairy bacopa. Despite the fact that woolly Bacopa has been known for a long time and has been grown for quite a long time, it can be seen extremely rarely in stores for aquarists. This is due to the fact that a beautiful aquatic inhabitant is not the best plant for an aquarium, as she is very whimsical and capricious
Getting to know the plant
Woolly Bacopa is a marsh beauty from the Norichnikov family, endowed with creeping or erect stems and reaching a height of twenty centimeters. Its stalks are rather fleshy, covered with woolly pile and reach about half a centimeter in thickness. Naked sessile leaves, located crosswise and oppositely, tightly cover the stems. In the places of their articulation with the stems, at times you can see bizarre root processes.
The leafy blades of woolly bacopa are distinguished by rounded tops. All leaves have central veins and are three centimeters wide and a little over three centimeters long. The shape of the leaflets can be either simply ovoid or ovoid-round. The edges of the underwater leaves are solid, and of the above-water ones - with small notches.
As for the woolly bacopa color, it can be either completely green (with a wide variety of shades of green), or with small whitish veins.
Separate axillary five-petal flowers of this aquatic inhabitant, formed with enviable regularity on its surface parts, are endowed with four stamens, a dicotyledonous upper lip and a trilobate lower lip. The length of their pistils reaches about 5 mm, and the stigmas of the beautiful flowers are two-columnar. All flowers have a very rich bluish-purple color and look quite impressive.
It is noteworthy that the terrestrial form of woolly bacopa is distinguished by a more saturated color of leaves and a slightly reddish shade of the base.
The smell of woolly bacopa is surprisingly pleasant - a wonderful aroma comes from the juice of its leaves and stems. If you rub the leaf with your fingers, you can fully enjoy the fragrance of a capricious water beauty. Also, this plant has two whole varieties, differing in the shape of the leaves, cups and corollas. The woolly bacopa was first described in 1891 by Wetstein.
How to grow
For keeping in aquariums, woolly bacopa is considered an unsuitable plant. It is incredibly difficult to achieve good development and growth of this aquatic beauty in aquarium conditions due to its whimsicality. In aquariums, it is usually planted in rosettes of five or six layers in the background. For the comfort of a whimsical aquatic inhabitant, water should be slightly acidic, and its temperature should reach twenty-six degrees.
It is best, of course, to grow terrestrial bacopa in paludariums. Lighting for its full development should be sufficiently intense, and the soil should be enriched with all kinds of nutrients in substantial quantities. It is allowed to grow a capricious aquatic inhabitant in terrariums.
By the way, strong hairiness in specimens of woolly bacopa grown far from natural conditions is far from always present, since the air during their cultivation is often stagnant and too humid.
Since the flowers of the woolly bacopa are formed quite regularly, there are usually no problems with its reproduction. But growing it is not always easy - new layers should be fixed in the substrate as carefully as possible and taken care of very carefully. Woolly bacopa grows by about five centimeters per month.
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