Cymodoceaceae
Species code: si
Syringodium isoetifolium
Also known as Genus Silene, Unidentified plant, Unknown species, Phucagrostis isoetifolia
Tropical Plants · Native Plants · Seagrass · Noodle Seagrass · Aquatic · Marine · Tropical · Indo-Pacific · Cymodoceaceae · Submerged · Reef · Ecological
Syringodium isoetifolium, commonly known as noodle seagrass, is a tropical marine seagrass native to Indo-Pacific coastal shallows and is not cultivable in a standard home or garden setting. It grows fully submerged in warm, clear, nutrient-poor saltwater and plays a critical ecological role as fish and dugong habitat. It is of interest primarily to marine ecologists and reef restoration specialists.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Fully submerged in warm shallow tropical marine water · Continuously submerged — aquatic species
- 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
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Aldabra, Andaman Is., Borneo, Caroline Is., China Southeast, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Fiji, Gulf States, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku
Sources: trefle
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