2x Water Hyacinth Live Pond Plants Aquarium Freshwater Floating Plants

Description

This is for 2x plants of Water Hyacinth for pond or aquarium (see first picture).
- Plant will be around 3-5 inches in diameter. These are grown plants, ready to reproduce.
- Water hyacinth will flower when the right condition is met.
- These oxygenating plants keep the water clean and filtered in your water garden.
- They serve as natural bio filters to your pond and hiding spots for smaller fish.
- 100% chemical free. Grow in our pond.
- Controls algae by absorbing nutrients from the water
- Please note this plant ships with trimmed roots as sometimes they tend to fall off during transit due to heat. In case roots fall off upon receiving them, just place them in your pond and give them couple of weeks so they can re-establish themselves.
Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic plant (or hydrophyte) native to tropical and sub-tropical South America. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter (3 feet) in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm (4–8 inches) across on a stem which is floating by means of buoyant bulb-like nodules at its base above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. An erect stalk supports a single spike of 8–15 conspicuously attractive flowers, mostly lavender to pink in colour with six petals. When not in bloom, water hyacinth may be mistaken for frog's-bit (Limnobium spongia[3]) or Amazon frogbit (Limnobium laevigatum).
One of the fastest-growing plants known, water hyacinth reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, which eventually form daughter plants. Each plant additionally can produce thousands of seeds each year, and these seeds can remain viable for more than 28 years.[4] Some water hyacinths were found to grow between 2 and 5 meters (7 and 16 feet) a day in some sites in Southeast Asia.[5] The common water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes) are vigorous growers and mats can double in size in one to two weeks.[6] And in terms of plant count rather than size, they are said to multiply by more than a hundredfold in number, in a matter of 23 days.
Shipping Policy:
Plants will be packed with insulation and shipped FREE via USPS First Class. USPS Priority is available for extra. Shipping is on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Saturday to continental US states
Please watch your weather, I will not ship if your area is below 35F or above 95F
DOA policy:
It is rarely happened. But in case of DOA, please submit a CLEAR photo of the plants within 2 hours after package is received in first attempt, a refund will be issued for the deceased plants.