Water Hyssop (Bacopa monnieri)

(set of 3 stems)

Water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri), originally a medicinal plant, is one of the most versatile in aquatic environments: aquarium or pond, underwater or above, it can do it all!

This Bacopa comes to us from China and its surroundings, and it is primarily known as a medicinal plant (the famous "Brahmi" or "plant of wisdom").

"She is what we call 'succulent', meaning that she has thickened leaves, containing a bit of water, like those of fleshy plants or purslane for example."
Its green is very soft and it is not invasive in the aquarium.

"She has long learned to be cultivated in every way: it is an aquatic plant that can even be grown in a pot, in potting soil, as long as it is watered often!"

In natural aquaristics, it is particularly interesting.
Oxygenating plant when it grows underwater, it is all the more effective when it is well lit.
When it reaches the surface, two solutions are available to you:
- let it continue if you don't have a lid, and it will switch to aerial mode, even blooming, sometimes abundantly, then covering itself with small white to mauve flowers.
- cut it and replant the cut part in the back, which will thus become a cutting
It is also one of the easiest plants (hence its presence in our selection), which does not require complicated care to grow.

But the natural is also the basin. It excels there too, emerging from the surface on sunny days, even forming carpets with its stems creeping out of the water, on the soaked banks, like mint.
She's making herself comfortable!
Winter is not her favorite season, due to her origins, and she is by nature chilly and frost-prone.
However, the strain we offer survives the winter underwater without any problems, and the parts out of the ice, near the bottom, survive and wait for spring to start again. We have been preserving and hardening it this way since 2004 every winter without ever losing it.

Our strain of Bacopa monnieri is therefore just as comfortable in an aquarium as in an outdoor pond all year round. This naturally predisposes it to poubellariums. A sandy bottom, a few stems planted at the bottom, and it will stick its head out of the water to bloom in summer! Some decorate their terrace (or balcony) with a poubellarium featuring a small water lily and Bacopas. And if it has to wait for the following winter, it will wait at the bottom.

Nothing prevents you, like the Rotala indica, from laying it on the substrate of the aquarium to encourage it to root at each node, thus forming several stems that will more quickly produce a bushier bouquet. Because Bacopa lends itself quite well to layering.

Each batch contains 3 rods.

Our plants are guaranteed to be free from rock wool, or any artificial substrate, ready to adapt to their new environment.

Although they are not classified as invasive plants, I ask you not to spread these plants in nature.

Indicative weight: 10g