Tropica 048B Tissue Culture - Micranthemum callitrichoides Cuba

Tropica 048B Tissue Culture - Micranthemum callitrichoides CubaTropica Tissue Culture Micranthemum callitrichoides Cuba Tropica 048B Tissue Culture Micranthemum callitrichoides Cuba is used as an attractive foreground plant for small aquariums, creating a carpet like effect on the bottom with its small, round leaves. Micranthemum callitrichoides Cuba is one of the smallest aquarium plants in the world, and creeps over the bottom with millimetre sized, round leaves. Micranthemum callitrichoides is an attractive

Tropica Tissue Culture - Micranthemum callitrichoides Cuba

Tropica 048B Tissue Culture - Micranthemum callitrichoides Cuba is used as an attractive foreground plant for small aquariums, creating a carpet-like effect on the bottom with its small, round leaves.

Micranthemum callitrichoides ’Cuba’ is one of the smallest aquarium plants in the world, and creeps over the bottom with millimetre-sized, round leaves. Micranthemum callitrichoides is an attractive and popular foreground plant for small aquariums. 

It is not a difficult plant, but it requires good conditions such as enough light, added CO2, water circulation and fertilizer to thrive. If these conditions are hard to create, you may use Micranthemum ‘Monte-Carlo’ as an alternative, as it is less demanding. 

Small pearls or bubbles of oxygen are often produced on top of the plants, adding a very lively aspect to the carpet.

If planted in small clumps a few centimetres apart, it will spread rapidly and cover the bottom like a carpet. Trim the carpet regularly, otherwise the lower parts will not get enough light causing root death. 

Found on Cuba, west of Havana.

Plant info

Type: Carpeting

Origin: North America

Growth rate: Medium

Height: 3 - 5+

Light demand: High

CO2 : High

NOTE: This is a live aquatic aquarium plant.