Echinodorus Yellow Sun

Most swords are green. 'Yellow Sun' comes through yellow-green, sometimes with orange or light red at the edges under stronger light — heart-shaped leaves that read as a warm patch rather than another block of dark foliage.

What You'll Receive

Enhance your aquarium with our fresh, high-quality plants, available in convenient formats:

• Loose Bare-Root Plants: Includes approximately 1-2 loose, bare-root plants, providing flexibility in planting and arrangement.
• Rooted Bunched: Approximately 1-2 plants, bundled with foam and a plant weight for easy placement.
• Rooted Potted: Includes approximately 1-2 plants, potted in a net pot with rock wool, ensuring stability and ease of placement in your aquarium.

Plant Profile

• Common name — Yellow Sun Sword
• Scientific name — Echinodorus 'Yellow Sun'
• Also known as — Echinodorus cordifolius 'Yellow Sun', Golden Sun Sword
• Origin — Cultivated form; parent species from the Americas
• Placement — Midground to background
• Mature height — 10-16 inches
• Growth rate — Medium

Care

• Difficulty — Intermediate
• Light — Medium to high
• CO₂ — Recommended
• Water — 68-82°F, pH 6.5-7.5
• Substrate — Required. Heavy root feeder — nutrient-rich soil or root tabs
• Growth habit — Amphibious rosette
• Propagation — Adventitious plantlets on flower stalks

Grower's Notes

• Light decides whether it is yellow or just green. Under medium light the leaves lean pale green; stronger light brings out the golden tone and the orange-red edging. This is the one variable worth adjusting if the color disappoints.
• Root tabs are not optional. Swords take almost everything from the substrate. In inert gravel with liquid dosing alone the yellow washes out to a sickly pale green, which is easy to mistake for a deficiency in the water column.
• Never bury the crown. Cover the roots and leave the growing point at substrate level. A buried crown rots from the center and does not recover.
• It propagates from flower stalks, not runners. A mature plant sends up an inflorescence carrying plantlets along its length; let each root and grow three or four leaves before separating it.
• Use it against green, not against red. Yellow-green next to red plants muddies both. Set against dark green foliage or wood it does what it is bought for.

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

Notes

• Pictures are not the actual plants you will receive, but a sample representation. Unless specific, we don't guarantee aquatic plants will be free of pests, pesticides, grow emerged, or submerge.
• Never release aquarium plants into natural waterways.

At a glance

• Free shipping on orders of $150 or more (after discounts) within the contiguous United States, by USPS.
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• Weather holds: during extreme heat or cold we may hold live orders until it's safe to ship.
• We ship within the United States only.

Please bring live plants indoors and unpack them the day they arrive. Every live order is covered by our 24-Hour Live Arrival Guarantee.

The complete rules, including lost packages and address issues, are in our Shipping Policy. If anything conflicts, that policy applies.

Every live order is backed by our 24-Hour Live Arrival Guarantee. If a plant arrives dead, we'll make it right.

How it works

• Tell us within 24 hours of the delivery time on your tracking.
• Send photos of the affected items in their original, unopened packaging, plus a photo of the shipping label, to hello@aquariumplantsfactory.com with your order number.
• We'll make it right with a replacement, store credit or refund for the affected item.

Good to know

• Some melting or yellowing as plants adjust from greenhouse to aquarium life is normal. They regrow from healthy roots and rhizomes.
• Please bring your package indoors and unpack it the day it arrives.
• Free promotional items and shipping charges are not covered.

The complete rules, including what's covered and what voids the guarantee, are in our Returns, Refunds & Live Arrival Guarantee. If anything conflicts, that policy applies.

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