🌿 Cardamine lyrata Vitro Culture®

Cardamine lyrata, also known as Japanese Cress, is a versatile and attractive aquarium plant admired for its bright green, rounded leaves and trailing growth pattern. Cultivated in sterile Vitro Culture®, this plant arrives free from pests, algae, and harmful pathogens, ensuring a healthy and safe start for your aquascape.

🌟 Key Features:

• Scientific Name: Cardamine lyrata

• Synonyms: Japanese Cress, Creeping Jenny (aquatic form)

• Common Name: Cardamine

• Unique Growth Habit: Forms creeping, trailing stems with round leaves that spread beautifully along the substrate or driftwood.

• Bright & Lush: Produces vibrant green foliage that contrasts well against red or dark-leaved aquarium plants.

• Vitro Culture® Guarantee: Lab-grown in sterile conditions, ensuring clean, strong, and healthy plants for your aquarium.

🌱 Growth & Propagation:

• Lighting Needs: Moderate to high light encourages compact growth and vibrant color.

• CO₂ & Fertilizers: Benefits from added CO₂ and nutrients but will also grow in low-tech aquariums.

• Growth Method: Can be grown submerged as a trailing midground or background plant, or emersed in terrariums/paludariums.

• Nutrient Substrate: Not required, but growth improves with nutrient-rich substrate.

• Can Be Grown Emersed: Yes – ideal for both aquariums and paludarium/terrarium setups.

🖼️ Aquascaping Benefits:

• Creates a natural, creeping effect across hardscape or substrate.

• Perfect for midground coverage or trailing accents along driftwood.

• Adds texture and contrast with its rounded leaf shape compared to stem plants.

📦 What You’ll Receive:

Sold in a 4-inch sealed Vitro Culture® bag, yielding 3–4 healthy plant clusters ready for aquarium planting.

⚠️ Disclaimer:

As with all aquarium plants, Cardamine lyrata may transition from its emersed tissue culture form to submerged growth. Some initial leaf melt is normal as the plant adapts to your aquarium conditions.

🚫 State Restrictions Notice ♻️ Be a Responsible Aquatic Plants Owner

Please check your local regulations regarding aquatic plants before purchase. Never release plants into local waterways.

 WHAT WE GUARANTEE

24 Hours Live Arrival Guarantee* - In a rare case of live stocks dead on arrival, we must be notified within 24 hours by the same day of delivery. Please take clear photos of the damaged product and send it to us within 24 hours.  Live Arrival Guarantee will be void after 24 hours of delivery. All replacements are considered final and we will not replace the replacement.

1. Picture requirements: Take at least 2 clear photos of damaged product in their original, unopened & sealed transparent packing and send photos and orders information to our email within 24 hours: aquariumplantsfactory@gmail.com 
2. Please do not take picture of damaged plants, or animals in your aquarium. Once they have been introduced to your aquarium's ecosystem. It is no longer covered by our guarantee.

Please be aware that our Live Arrival Guarantee is subject to certain conditions. Specifically, the guarantee will not be applicable in cases where the package is marked as 'invalid address', 'undeliverable' or is 'returned to sender.' This includes situations such as a vacant delivery address, a missing apartment number, or any other issues that prevent the postal service from delivering your package.

It is crucial to provide accurate and complete shipping information to ensure the successful delivery of your order and the applicability of the Live Arrival Guarantee.

Please keep in mind that Live Arrival Guarantee only guarantees that live stocks will be alive upon arrival. We cannot guarantee that you will continue to have success with them. Many factors, including the aquarium environment, water quality, nutrient, temperature, lighting, filter, and CO2 system, can contribute to the failure to grow live plants and live animals.

WHAT WE CAN'T GUARANTEE

Even though our plants are very clean, but we can't guarantee they will be 100% pest-free because we cannot be responsible for your aquarium. Please use it at your own risk. We recommended all customers rinse the plants with clean water and quarantine them before use.

However, plants in tissue culture will be 100% free from pests, algae and never have been contacting with any aquarium.

1. Due to the nature of the product. We don't guarantee our plants will be pests free. ( snails, algae, hitchhikers )
2. We don't guarantee our plants will be free of pesticides. We use homemade, organic pesticides in our greenhouse to control pests. We do not use pesticides that contain copper. Copper is toxic to invertebrates such as aquatic snails, crabs, shrimps, etc
3. We don't guarantee your aquarium success or are responsible for your aquarium inhabitant including but not limited to fish, shrimp, snail, turtle, etc. So please quarantine all plants when use!
4. Unless specific, we don't guarantee aquatic plants will be grow emerged or submerge.

Please review your state's regulations on restricted plants, as we are committed to not shipping plants that are restricted in your area. Do not release any plants into the wild or waterways, as this can harm local ecosystems by introducing invasive species.

Your cooperation in protecting the environment is appreciated. For continuously updated information, refer to the USDA State Noxious Weed list here.

Thank you for your responsible commitment to environmental preservation.