Hydrocharitaceae
Halophila capricorni
Halophila capricorni
Tropical Plants · Native Plants · Seagrass · Marine · Aquatic · Saltwater · Tropical · New Caledonia · Queensland · Coastal · Underwater
Halophila capricorni is a rare tropical seagrass found in shallow coastal waters of Queensland and New Caledonia, entirely unsuitable for home or garden cultivation. It depends on clean, warm saltwater environments and filtered marine light to survive. This specialist species is not commercially available and is known primarily to marine ecologists and researchers.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Fully aquatic; requires constant saltwater immersion · Continuously submerged in seawater
- 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
- New Caledonia, Queensland
Sources: trefle
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