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Hydrocharitaceae
Thalassia hemprichii
Thalassia hemprichii
Also known as Schizotheca hemprichii
Tropical Plants · Native Plants · Seagrass · Marine · Aquatic · Tropical · Indo-Pacific · Saltwater · Coastal · Underwater · Thalassia · Conservation
Thalassia hemprichii, commonly known as tropical seagrass or Enhalus seagrass, is a fully marine aquatic plant that grows submerged in shallow coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific and is not suitable for home garden cultivation. It requires clean, warm, shallow saltwater with a sandy or silty substrate and stable nutrient levels, making it exclusively a species for specialized marine aquaria or conservation restoration projects. This plant plays a vital ecological role in coastal marine ecosystems
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Requires full marine submersion in shallow, clear tropical seawater with stable salinity · Continuously submerged in seawater — not applicable for terrestrial watering
- 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
- 24 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., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gilbert Is., Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives
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