Mazhar Botanic Garden

Salvinia auriculata Aubl.

Butterfly fern

Sample code: EGY-MBG-001337
English name: Butterfly fern
Arabic name: سلفينيا
Native: Americas. Mexico, Argentina and Chile
Country: Argentina Chile Mexico
(PGR): Cultivated plant

Butterfly fern, free-floating aquatic fern leaves green velvety covered in unique eggbeater-shaped hair structures

used in aquariums, terrariums. Absorbs excess nitrates, phosphates. Processed into green manure, mulch, or biofertilizers.

Marsilea auriculata Vitman - Salvinia rotundifolia Willd

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Lights: Full sun Light shade
Propagation: Vegetative division - sporocarps
Flowering time: Not a flowering plant
Zone: 9 : 11
pH range: 6.0-8.0

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