Transform your aquarium foreground with Marsilea Hirsuta, one of the most versatile and forgiving carpeting plants in the aquascaping hobby. Native to Australia, this clover-like water fern features small, lush green leaves that spread via runners to form a dense, natural carpet across your substrate.
Whether you are setting up a high-tech aquascape or a low-tech planted tank, Marsilea Hirsuta is an ideal choice. It adapts remarkably well to varying lighting conditions, forming s⁸ingle or four-lobed leaves depending on light intensity. Highly recommended for beginners and experienced aquascapers alike.
Key Features:
- Low Maintenance: Highly adaptable and far easier to grow than traditional carpet plants like Glossostigma or HC Cuba.
- Versatile Growth: Thrives with or without heavy CO2 injection.
- Tissue Culture/Healthy Pots: Free from unwanted pests, snails, and algae.
- Ideal Foreground Plant: Creates a natural, meadow-like look in nano tanks and large aquascapes.
- 3x times more plant quantity than other leading brands..
- New leaves are brown in color making to look a flower
- Grows as close carpet with 2cm high
- Most robust carpeting plant
| Common names |
Hansen’s Nardoo |
| Synonyms |
Marsilea azorica Launert & Paiva |
| Complete botanical name |
Marsílea hirsúta R. Br. |
| Family |
Marsileaceae |
| Genus |
Marsilea |
| Usage |
Foreground, ground cover |
| Aquascaping |
forms a small-leaved carpet |
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