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Hydrocharitaceae
Caribbean seagrass
Halophila decipiens
Also known as Halophila decipiens var. pubescens, Manatee grass, Cuban shoalweed, Turtle grass
Tropical Plants · Native Plants · Seagrass · Marine · Aquatic · Saltwater · Tropical · Underwater · Coastal · Reef · Specialist · Hydrocharitaceae
Caribbean seagrass is a fully submerged marine aquatic plant found in shallow tropical and subtropical coastal waters, making it entirely unsuitable for home garden or indoor cultivation. It requires stable saltwater conditions, appropriate substrate, and filtered marine light, and is almost exclusively encountered in professional marine research or large-scale reef aquarium systems. This species is ecologically important as a habitat and food source for marine life but is not commercially avail
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Requires full marine submersion; not applicable to conventional watering · Fully submerged aquatic — continuous saltwater submersion required
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7
- Temperature
- -25°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Bangladesh, Belize, Canary Is., Chagos Archipelago, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Florida, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Leeward Is., Maluku, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Myanmar, Nansei-Shoto, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia
Sources: trefle
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