Echinodorus sp. 'Horizontalis Mini'

About this plant

Horizontalis Mini is a compact sword-plant culture form with rounded leaves and a smaller rosette than the standard plant sold as horizontalis. Mini describes the selected growth habit, not just the pot size. Place it in a midground opening where the rounded blades can extend without covering the front glass. Young leaf colour can differ from mature foliage. The botanical identification of the trade clone as true Echinodorus horizontalis is not established here, so the profile deliberately uses Echinodorus sp. with its full culture designation. Plant the roots in an adequately nourished substrate while leaving the crown at its surface. Allow room for the rosette rather than using the dimensions of a nursery pot as its final footprint. Remove unwanted outer leaves at their base. Balanced root-zone nutrition supports establishment; it does not guarantee a particular colour. Emergent leaves can be replaced underwater. Where flower-stalk plantlets develop, allow them to form roots before separating them. 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.