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Aquatic Plants

Baumea rubiginosa
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Soft Twig Rush

Baumea rubiginosa ​​Soft Twig Rush
Baumea rubiginosa ​​Soft Twig Rush
Baumea rubiginosa ​​Soft Twig Rush
Wetland Planting Zone
Ephemeral Batter
Approved Format
>90cm3 plants (such as 93cc HIKO stock)
Family
Cyperaceae
Form
Rhizomatous, robust perennial sedge, typically grows to 250cm tall
Foliage
Compressed ribbon-like green leaves with rigid, terete and biconvex culms that are smooth and glabrous. Tips of the leaves are often orange-brown.
Flowers
The narrow and erect inflorescence has an interrupted-oblong shape in outline forming dense clusters that are around 7 to 20cm long and with a diameter of 1 to 2.5 cm.
Fruit
Pale red to bright orange ellipsoid nut that is 2.2-4mm long and 1.2-2mm diameter
Habitat
Moist to wet sandy soils in heathlands and swamps. Full sun, semi-shade.
Distinctive Features
Lowest involucral bract much shorter than inflorescence
Similar Species
Distinguished from Baumea articulata by the flat, ribbon-like leaves
Comments
Tolerant of frosts, indundation, low nutrient soils, poor water quality

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