Echinodorus Horemanii Red

Deep red, bronze and brown on broad textured leaves. Echinodorus horemanii 'Red' is one of the strongest-colored swords in the genus — closely related to E. uruguayensis and sharing its arching, strap-like build, but carrying color instead of plain green.

What You'll Receive

Sold as Bare-Root Plants or Potted Plants:

• Bare-Root Plants: Small rooted plant, ready to establish in your aquarium substrate.
• Potted Plants: Small plant in a net pot with rockwool for easy planting and stable growth.

Plant Profile

• Common name — Horemanii Red Sword
• Scientific name — Echinodorus horemanii 'Red'
• Also known as — Red Horemanii Sword
• Origin — South America; closely allied to Echinodorus uruguayensis
• Placement — Midground to background
• Shipped size — Small plant, well short of mature height
• Mature height — 10-16 inches
• Suits — 20 gallons and up
• Growth rate — Medium

Care

• Difficulty — Intermediate
• Light — Medium to high. Intensity sets how deep the red runs.
• CO₂ — Recommended. It holds color and form far better with it.
• Water — 68-82°F, pH 6.5-7.5
• Substrate — Required. Heavy root feeder — root tabs or aquasoil under the crown.
• Growth habit — Amphibious rosette; grows emersed too, but the color is stronger submerged
• Propagation — Adventitious plantlets on aerial floral stalks

Grower's Notes

• Red here is earned, not given. This is an Intermediate plant precisely because the color depends on conditions: medium-high light, a fed substrate, ideally CO₂. Under thin light in inert gravel it grows, but green-brown and small. Decide whether you can give it those things before buying.
• It builds a serious root mass. Give it three inches of substrate depth and root tabs beneath the crown. This is the single biggest lever on both size and color.
• It does not spread by runners. Swords propagate by throwing an aerial floral stalk carrying plantlets along its length — nothing travels under the substrate. Leave each plantlet attached until it has four or five leaves and its own roots, then cut it free.
• Plant the crown at substrate level, never below. Cover the roots and leave the growing point exposed; a buried crown rots from the center.
• Expect a transition. Emersed-grown leaves melt back after planting. The submerged flush that follows is where the color is — judge it on that, not on arrival.

Also available as a Vitro Culture cup.

Want to go deeper? Read our complete Amazon Sword (Echinodorus) Care Guide.

Notes

Pictures shown are sample representations. Actual plants may vary in size, shape, and color. Unless specified, Aquarium Plants Factory® does not guarantee plants will be free from snails, pests, pesticides, or that they will be fully submerged-grown. Transitional melt is normal during adaptation.

Never release aquarium plants into natural waterways.

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Good to know

• Some melting or yellowing as plants adjust from greenhouse to aquarium life is normal. They regrow from healthy roots and rhizomes.
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