Bucephalandra sp. 'Velvet Tricolor'

About this plant

Velvet Tricolor is a narrow-leaved Bucephalandra culture form documented through the specialist nursery's own underwater propagation. Its roughly linear blades and strongly branching thin rhizome produce a low, busy outline rather than a few large show leaves. The nursery describes leaf blades around 30 × 4.5 mm; these are leaf measurements, not the plant's height. New brown-red and older darker leaves may occur together. The name does not establish identity with the separate Bronze Tricolor trade form already in the database. Secure the plant to rock or wood and leave its creeping rhizome uncovered. Gentle circulation keeps debris from settling on slow-growing foliage. Maintain balanced nutrition and stable conditions; sudden changes may be followed by leaf loss. Remove deteriorating leaves and preserve a firm living rhizome. Propagate established plants by dividing healthy leaf-bearing sections. Emerse and submerse leaf appearance can differ. General Bucephalandra guidance is not a measured tolerance limit for every named culture form. 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.