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product_id: 52346787
title: "Echinodorus Mercedes - Live aquarium plant"
brand: "aquaplants"
price: "¥582"
currency: JPY
in_stock: false
url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/52346787-echinodorus-mercedes-live-aquarium-plant
store_origin: JP
region: Japan
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# 25 cm vibrant growth Striking dark red leaves Versatile placement front/mid Echinodorus Mercedes - Live aquarium plant

**Brand:** aquaplants
**Price:** ¥582
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🌿 Turn your aquarium into a living masterpiece with Echinodorus Mercedes!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Echinodorus Mercedes - Live aquarium plant by aquaplants
- **How much does it cost?** ¥582 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/52346787-echinodorus-mercedes-live-aquarium-plant)

## Best For

- aquaplants enthusiasts

## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Vibrant 25 cm Growth:** Perfect medium size for dynamic aquarium design
- • **Natural Color Contrast:** Enhances visual depth when paired with light green plants
- • **Universal Aquarium Fit:** Ideal for tanks of any size, front or center stage
- • **Low-Maintenance Elegance:** Live plant that effortlessly elevates your aquarium’s aesthetic
- • **Striking Dark Red Leaves:** Adds bold, eye-catching contrast to your aquatic landscape

## Overview

Echinodorus Mercedes is a medium-sized live aquarium plant, growing up to 25 cm tall, featuring distinctive dark red leaves that create stunning contrast in any tank. Suitable for all aquarium sizes, it thrives when placed at the front or middle, enhancing your aquatic environment with natural elegance and vibrant color.

## Description

Product description               Very beautiful plant with leaves of dark red color. Medium size, up to 25 cm high. Good for aquariums of any size. The plant is placed at the front wall or in the middle of the aquarium. The red leaves of Echinodus Mercedes look especially good against the background of light green plants of the same size. Echinodorus Mercedes - a plant with a short stem, modified in the rhizome, and with a beautiful rosette of leaves. The leaf blade is lanceolate, slightly wavy, about 15 cm long and 5 cm wide, with a pointed tip. The length of the leaf petiole is 5–7 cm. The leaves that appear first are red, then turn dark red, and later acquire an olive tinge. Old leaves are dark brown with a greenish tint or reddish green. The leaf has five longitudinal ribs, sharply protruding on the reverse side and colored lighter than the surrounding tissues. Flower arrows, which the plant can throw several times a year, are red with three or four whorls. The optimum temperature for keeping an Echinodus Mercedes is 22–28ºC. Lighting - weak or moderate. Water should be neutral or slightly acidic (pH values ​​can be 6–7 units), water hardness is not too important, its values ​​can range from 5 to 15 degrees. Soil is better to take fine-grained, with a grain size of 1-3 mm, without limestone and other impurities. Echinodorus Mercedes is propagated vegetatively with the help of baby plants formed in whorls on peduncles. When transplanting an adult plant, you can cut its rhizome into small pieces, and after cutting the roots, leave cuttings in an aquarium where they can float on the surface. Over time, they form new plants. After they form several leaves and roots, they are planted in the ground.                  Legal Disclaimer               Very nice melon sword on the middle plan aquarium. Form underwater is significantly different from the form above water - its leaves are deep red. Echinodorus 'Mercedes' grows in height up to 25 cm, bears a lot of leaves, spreading shrub. In the culture of Echinodorus 'Mercedes' unpretentious, the growth rate - the average. Description: hybrid oval greenish-red leaves. Young leaves are red.

## Features

- Very beautiful plant with leaves of dark red color. Medium size, up to 25 cm high.
- Good for aquariums of any size. The plant is placed at the front wall or in the middle of the aquarium.
- The red leaves of Echinodus Mercedes look especially good against the background of light green plants of the same size.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Brand | AquaPlants |
| Colour | Brown,Red |

## Product Details

- **Indoor/Outdoor usage:** Indoor
- **Brand:** AquaPlants
- **Material feature:** Natural
- **Colour:** Brown,Red
- **Sunlight exposure:** Partial Shade
- **Unit count:** 1 count
- **Product care instructions:** water
- **Expected plant height:** 25 Centimetres
- **Moisture needs:** Moderate Watering

## Images

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*Store origin: JP*
*Last updated: 2026-02-12*