{"id":408,"date":"2015-06-20T12:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T10:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fancyplants.de\/de\/?page_id=408"},"modified":"2019-07-21T18:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:37:35","slug":"aldrovanda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fancyplants.de\/en\/carnihome\/arten\/klappe\/aldrovanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Wheel Plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Water Wheel Plant (<i>Aldrovanda vesiculosa<\/i>)<\/h1><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Overview<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><i>Aldrovanda vesiculosa<\/i> is an aquatic plant. The genus <i>Aldrovanda<\/i> (Water Wheel Plant) has only one species, which is to be found worldwide. It is closely related to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"..\/dionaea\">Venus Flytrap (<i>Dionaea muscipula<\/i>)<\/a> and applies like this a snap trap mechanism for prey catching.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Trap mechanism<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Aldovandas produce a swimming, circa 20 cm long sprout with numerous leaf whorls. From the whorls arise ordinarily between 5 &#8211; 10 bristles, which for their part carry circa 5 mm large snap traps (morphological those of the Venus Flytrap very similar). With the snap traps the <i>Aldrovanda<\/i> preys small water fleas, mosquito larvae and the like.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-4 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Culture and propagation<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Up to circa 20 years ago a longer-term culture of <i>Aldrovanda<\/i> was considered to be almost impossible. In the meantime several tricks have been found, with which <i>Aldrovanda<\/i> is to cultivate relative trouble-free and easy for years. Up to now I collected experience only in the culture of the non-frost-hardy clone &#8218;Sydney&#8216;. As culture pot is suitable a small transparent bowl or a small aquarium with a volume of circa 3 &#8211; 10 l with a water level of 5 &#8211; 10 cm. The goodness of water as well as of the soil are very important. Avoid an overmuch nutritional supplement, an alga growth on the Water Wheel Plant is lethal! I use as soil a mixture of raised bog peat, lime-free quartz sand as well as a driblet clay (circa 5%). I add to the soil a driblet sedge leaves as well as a small potsherd. Both is important! From the potsherd are trace minerals like boron released, the sedge leaves decay slowly and release continually a few carbon dioxide, which Water Wheel Plants need for their growth. In addition I &#8218;inject&#8216; the water with a few water fleas and ditch the pot for circa one month at a slight half-shady place. If a stable equilibrium has arrived after one month and if the pot doesn&#8217;t show any alga growth, then I add the Water Wheel Plants. Mostly I add furthermore one Eichornia. Eichhornias are water hyacinths, which are subject to a fast growth and thereby absorb rapidly nutrients and convert them into biomass. You get water hyacinths in fishkeeping shops or in summer in the pond division of a garden centre. The only disadvantage of Eichornias is their distinct root system, in which Water Wheel Plants are often caught. This is then a problem, if you want to remove abundant Eichhornias from the aquarium. Thus, I partition the Eichhornias from the Water Wheel Plants mostly with an additional transverse glass panel, which is slight smaller than the pot, so that a water exchange between both section is ensured. An all-year culture on the windowsill is possible.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":343,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Water Wheel Plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) - Fancy Plants - Englisch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Portrait of the Water Wheel Plant (Aldovanda vesiculosa) including plant description, distribution, trap mechanism and cultural advices.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fancyplants.de\/en\/carnihome\/arten\/klappe\/aldrovanda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water Wheel Plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) - 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