Banana Plant- Nymphoides aquatica- Easy Beginner Plant
(Some leave have some sweet redish color to them too :)
Banana Plants.
I remember seeing Banana plants in the random 10 gallon "Planted Tank" at Meijer's as a kid. It's I plant I bought as a child and didn't kill.
YES- Banana Plants are EASY to keep. The "Bananas" are actually roots, storage centers for the plant.....and yes- they look like bananas. This makes this plant ideal for a beginner or KIDS aquarium! They won't kill it and get to show off the "bananas" in their tank.
This plant can handle LOW LIGHT.
On a Scale of 1 to 10. 1 being you could grow it in your toilet and 10 being, "You look at it wrong and it dies" THIS PLANT IS A 1.5
(And the only reason for the .5 is that the top upper Lily leaf might melt back but it will grow back a new one!)
Nymphoides aquatica is It is known variously as the banana plant, banana lily, and the big floatingheart. The "Nymph" part of its name signifies it's "Lily" type leaf.
If you like this plant make sure and check out our Red Tiger Lotus or "Dwarf Lily" as it is equally easy with a NICE RED LEAF. The two in the same tank would make a nice contrast.
Customer Reviews
My new favorite plant in my tank! Plant came with many lily leaves already with good roots! Ordered 9 other plants and they all came in great condition, and I was really impressed with the root systems on them all! The stemy plants came with more individual plants in each basket than I expected, and many were already throwing baby plants- yay! DFT was kind enough to even throw in some extras in my order, will definitely buy again and highly recommend!
Very good looking plant,two nice looking shoots with leaves. Thanks again
Nice. Mainly got them for nostalgic reasons. Once again my new tank is full of plants.
This lily showed up with good 'roots', and already had a lily pad formed. It's cool how it suspends the 'bananas' just above the substrate, almost as if they're floating. It will eventually shoot several lily pads with long attractive lily stems that look cool against something like val grass. My last banana lily from DFT lived for about 8-12 months until its life cycle finally ended. Happy to watch a new one grow. Thanks DFT
Banana plant came in healthy! They were very informative with shipping details and wrote a lil note with it. Thank you again! The lillies were wilting but its expected, they also warned that snails and other fish may eat the plant and thats true
