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		Final:	$3.25		First Bid	$3.25
		Time left	00:00		# of Bids	1 (bid history)
		Started	Dec 3 2011 - 10:40:04 AM		Location	grand island NY 14072 United States
		Ended	Dec 10 2011 - 10:40:04 AM Auction Closed
		Seller	Dflorio61 (1509/1544)
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		High Bidder	Freshwaterreef (76/76)
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Ruffled Sword Plant

Echinodorus major

 

This auction is for 1 of these plants

Care Level: Easy. Adaptable, will tolerate soft or moderately hard water, low to medium light, some additional fertilization beneficial or necessary. pH 6.0 to 7.5, GH up to 15 degrees/260ppm.

Echinodorus major is a beautiful sword plant that provides a very distinctive contrast to other members of the genus and is ideal as a background or corner plant in larger aquaria. The leaves, slightly lighter green that the common Amazon sword, arise from a compact rhizome up to 50cm/20in in length; the petioles are short, and the blade has wavy edges and one or two pairs of lighter-green veins that end above the base of the blade. The leaves generally grow more directly vertical than most of the other species in this genus, and thus take up less horizontal space.

This species is always submersed, unlike the majority of Echinodorus, and therefore is not suitable for terrariums or paludariums. Inflorescences [=flower stalks] will be produced; it is self-fertile, developing seeds that is the principal method of reproduction. It does not develop plantlets along the floral stock [Rataj 2004], nor does it produce root runners. New plants can also be obtained from dormant buds on the rhizome.

This plant may appear under either Echinodorus martii or E. major in the literature and may be seen under either name in the hobby. Originally described as Echinodorus martii by Micheli in 1881, Rataj (1967) revised it to E. major. In his latest (to date) revision of 2004, Rataj re-established it as E. martii. Lehtonen (2007) summarizes the complicated history of the name of this taxon and describes it as E. major and since he has extensively studied the genus phylogenetically we are following his classification.

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Bid History:

Bidders		Bid Time		Bid		Comments
Freshwaterreef (76/76)		Dec 9 2011 - 10:59:52 AM		$3.25

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