2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Schreber's Brazil is a very ancient plant: there is an opinion that it is much older than euryale and the sacred lotus. The seeds of this floating beauty have been found in Pliocene sediments in Europe and in the Cretaceous in North America. In nature, you can meet the Schreber brazz in the south of the Far East, as well as in East Asia, India, Australia, West Africa and North America
Getting to know the plant
Brazenia Schreber is a floating representative of the family with a rather funny name Kabombovye. It grows mainly on the territory of lakes reaching up to three meters deep, the rather muddy bottom of which is distinguished by an abundance of organic matter.
This aquatic beauty is endowed with branching, thin and rather long rhizomes, the length of internodes of which is about 15 - 30 cm. From the nodules to the sides and downward, bunches of completely discolored roots no more than one tenth of a millimeter in diameter and up to twenty centimeters in length extend. Such roots, gradually deepening into the ground, perform a fixing function. And from other nodules grow leafy shoots dividing into separate small internodes (4 - 10 cm each).
The leaves with shoots in the depths of the waters have a dark purple color, and closer to the surface they are already dark green, and all other above-water parts of the plant are painted in green tones. The successive leaves of Schreber's brazing are endowed with long petioles and oval thyroid plates floating on the surface from three to nine centimeters in width and ten to fourteen in length. Radiant venation is pronounced on the leaf blades, which are naked and solid along the edges. And below, these leaflets are colored purple.
The stem of Schreber's brazen is thin, and its pedicels and petioles are densely covered with a rather specific agar-like gelatinous mucus, which protects their surfaces from drying out and excessive evaporation of moisture.
The first young leaves can be seen on the surfaces of reservoirs in early June. And in early July, buds and delicate flowers will begin to appear, and the first buds begin to form in February under water. These buds are also covered with a dense mucous layer. Schreber will delight you with massive bloom in late July or early August. And even in mid-September, small single flowers can still be observed in a certain part of the plants.
The diameter of the flowers of this water beauty reaches 1, 5 - 2, 5 cm. Each flower has a double perianth, equipped with three sepals and three petals. The petals are colored green at the bottom and dark purple at the top. Throughout the day, friendly flowers are open, and with the onset of evening they begin to gradually sink under the water, where they stay until the next morning.
The fruits of Schreber's brazenia occupy an intermediate position between multileafs and multi-roots and consist of a number of greenish-brown or green non-opening leaflets.
How to grow
The cultivation of the excellent Schreber brazia is to a large extent favored by rather shallow reservoirs with excellent and quickly warming weak-flowing water. In principle, chlorinated water also does not negatively affect the development of this floating beauty. Only high floods, as well as a significant decrease in the water level, can adversely affect its flowering, especially if the season is dry. This plant is rarely used in aquariums.
This floating plant reproduces vegetatively or by seeds. With the vegetative method, parts of the stalks with leaves, separated in the summer, are lowered to the bottom of the reservoir, where they take root rather quickly. Planting is best done in containers. The seeds should be kept moist at three to five degrees. They germinate in water usually on the seventh day when the temperature reaches 18 - 20 degrees.
The seeds and rhizomes of the excellent Schreber brazenia can very well overwinter in non-freezing soil. And this floating aquatic inhabitant is usually not affected by diseases and pests at all.
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