Anubias sp. 'Giant Stardust'

About this plant

Giant Stardust is a larger-leaved Stardust-type Anubias selection with a pale midrib and fine light flecking. Giant is relative to smaller Stardust forms, not a promise of an enormous background plant. The amount of visible marking varies from leaf to leaf. A dark backing can make the fine pattern easier to see without increasing illumination. Keep debris off the broad, slow-renewing leaves and avoid treating pale speckles alone as a nutrient-deficiency diagnosis. Compare successive new leaves when judging health or loss of the selected pattern. Attach the rhizome to wood or stone without covering its growing stem. Roots may enter the substrate, but a buried rhizome can decay. Keep the slow-growing leaves free of debris, provide balanced water-column nutrition and avoid abrupt changes made only to chase a colour. Trim damaged leaves at their base. Divide an established rhizome into healthy leaf-bearing sections; emersed-grown stock can replace some leaves after submersion. Care ranges, where supplied, describe reported cultivation conditions rather than measured lethal limits. Width and nutrient concentrations are left unspecified where no defensible form-specific values are available.