Phyllanthus fluitans

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:50 am

Phyllanthus fluitans is a floating plant that originates
from Central & South America. IMO, it's one of the
prettiest of floating plants. Under intense light
the leaves turn orange / red. It'll frequently
have tiny white flowers which often produce little
red fruit. It can propagate via these fruit/seed.
It's commonly known as Red Root Floater - and
looking at the pictures you'll see why.
Easy to keep and very pretty.

<img src="http://www.aquaticscape.com/offsite/p_fluitans_1.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.aquaticscape.com/offsite/p_fluitans_2.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.aquaticscape.com/offsite/p_fluitans_3.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://www.aquaticscape.com/offsite/p_fluitans_4.jpg" border="0">

Post by **krisw** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:57 am

About how big do these leaves get? Duckweed size? Frogbite size? They're definitely pretty!

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:10 am

Leaves are about 1/2" - 1" in diameter. I'm going to
place a few outside in a tub to see how they react
to sunlight. I bet it'll get really red!

jerseyjay · Post by **jerseyjay** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:55 am

Ghazanfar,

I might pick some from you for my fishroom <img border="0" src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0">