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Ammania Senegalese is most often found in nature in the vastness of the African continent: in Abyssinia, Lower Egypt, from Senegal to South Africa and in a number of territories of distant East Africa. As for the living conditions of this aquatic beauty, they can be absolutely any - humid or aquatic environment, flooded areas, rice fields and even salty soils are equally well suited to Senegalese Ammania. This amazing plant will be a great decoration for almost any aquarium. Ammania Senegalese looks best in the middle ground
Getting to know the plant
The height of the above-water stems of Ammania Senegalese often reaches forty centimeters. The stalks of this aquatic inhabitant are fleshy and bare, and the root system is not particularly well developed. The length of the leaf blades can be up to six centimeters, and their width is about one and a half centimeters. Due to the fact that the planes of the leaves are rather convex, their edges are slightly curled down. And the shape of the leaves can be both lanceolate and elliptical.
Inflorescences of Ammania Senegalese are not very dense and are formed by one or several flowers, maximum - up to five pieces. Purple flowers are formed in nodules of emerging shoots. All of them are endowed with funny sitting stigmas, and they have four petals and stamens.
A distinctive feature of Ammania Senegalese is that it is characterized by both horizontal and vertical growth. That is, it will not be difficult to select this plant to match the water level in the aquarium. And as the water level rises, Senegalese Ammania begins to slowly grow in length.
How to grow
Ammania Senegalese is very whimsical, capricious and very photophilous to the habitat. Shady places for its development are categorically not suitable. It is allowed to grow this beauty in small aquariums. By the way, growing it, with all its whimsicality, will not be difficult - Senegalese Ammania can grow well both in open aquariums and being completely submerged in water. If you create very favorable conditions for this beauty, then she will develop at an incredible speed.
It is recommended to grow Senegalese Ammania in a soil rich in all kinds of nutrients (both sand and gravel are suitable), in rather soft water, as well as under very intense lighting, depending on which the color of the leaves of this beauty changes. In one light, they will be light yellow with a slight pinkish tint, and in another light pink. And sometimes the leaves turn pale red or pale green. Ammania Senegalese should have eight to ten hours of daylight hours. The most optimal temperature regime for its full development is in the range from 22 to 28 degrees. But this aquatic inhabitant will acquire a decorative appearance only if a whole group of underwater specimens is grown.
Various nutrients should be periodically added to the soil in relatively small quantities, since Senegalese Ammania receives its main food mainly from the soil.
If suddenly this luxurious plant began to grow poorly, it is advisable to try to transplant it to another place, having previously added a small amount of clay under its roots. Instead of clay, peat is also suitable.
The most effective will be the reproduction of Senegalese Ammania with the help of lateral shoots. In addition to cuttings, seed reproduction of this aquatic inhabitant is also possible. As a rule, specimens growing on the surface are propagated in this way. Periodically, the spread of this aquatic beauty should be limited.
Sometimes Senegalese Ammania is compared with graceful Ammania. This is due to the fact that they really have quite a few distinctive features, and outwardly they are very similar. Moreover, their breeding methods and keeping conditions are also almost identical. However, despite this, they are still different plants.
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