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Pistia stratiotes (Floating Aquatic)

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  • Lettuce-shaped leaves are soft & hairy
  • This plant spreads by sending out runners to form young plants
  • Fine roots give good cover for small fish
Despatch By The End Of May 2025
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The lettuce-shaped leaves are soft & hairy. This plant spreads by sending out runners to form young plants. The fine roots give good cover for small fish. Pistia are not hardy and do best placed in sheltered pools. Not hardy. Remove decaying plants after first frost. Very hard to overwinter as they must be placed in shallow water with soil at the base of the container. They should be kept in moderate light at a temperature above 15°C. Minimum height 10cm; maximum height 30cm. Minimum spread 10cm; maximum spread 20cm. Medium growth rate.

Growing Information

Pistia is a floating aquatic. Simply place the rosettes on the surface of the water in the required positions. Grow Pistia in full light in very sheltered outdoor ponds or frost free indoor ponds at a temperature of 15C (59F) or above.
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Standard Charge

Packet seed only will incur a carriage charge of £2.99.

All other products incur a carriage charge of £6.99.

If your order comprises of a combination of carriage charges then a combined carriage charge of £7.99 will be applied.

Live Plants

Suttons strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3.

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