🌿 Echinodorus Red Flame – Bold Sword Plant with Striking Red-Mottled Foliage

Also known as Red Flame Sword | Sold as Bare-root, Bunched, or Potted Plants

Echinodorus Red Flame is a captivating and robust sword plant, prized for its broad green leaves adorned with bold red speckles and mottling. This cultivated variety stands out in any freshwater aquarium, offering a striking contrast of color and texture. Its sturdy, rosette-forming growth habit and vibrant leaf patterns make it an excellent choice for aquascapers seeking a dramatic background anchor or a colorful centerpiece plant.

🌟 Key Features:

• Scientific Name: Echinodorus ‘Red Flame’

• Synonyms: Red Flame Sword

• Common Name: Red Flame Sword

• Leaf Style: Broad green leaves with vivid red speckling and mottling

• Growth Habit: Rosette-forming with strong, upright leaves

• Aquascaping Role: Ideal as a colorful background plant or focal point in medium to large tanks

🌱 Growth & Propagation:

• Lighting Needs: Moderate to high lighting to enhance red coloration and promote healthy growth

• CO₂ & Fertilizers: CO₂ not required but beneficial; heavy root feeder that thrives with nutrient-rich substrate and root tabs

• Growth Method: Submersed or emersed cultivation

• Nutrient Substrate: Required

• Can Be Grown Emersed: Yes

• Propagation: Produces side shoots and adventitious plantlets

🖼️ Aquascaping Benefits:

• Adds vibrant red accents for high visual impact

• Serves as a bold focal point in planted aquariums

• Offers shade and shelter for fish and shrimp

📦 What You’ll Receive:

Sold as loose bare-root plants, bunched plants, or potted plants:

• Fresh-Cut Plants: Approximately 1–2 individual bare-root plants

• Bunched Plants: Approximately 1–2 plants bundled with foam and a plant weight

• Potted Plants: Approximately 1–2 plants rooted in rockwool and net pot

⚠️ Disclaimer:

Color intensity will vary depending on light, nutrients, and water conditions. Older leaves may melt after planting; new growth will adapt to aquarium conditions.

🚫 State Restrictions Notice ♻️ Be a Responsible Aquatic Plants Owner
Always check your local regulations. Never release live plants into natural 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.