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The listing, water lettuce babies has ended.

It is almost fall and my plants have made babies. If anyone is interested I can send a baby to you. They are not hardy in Michigan so maybe someone can use them, they will just die here over the winter. They grow very fast and make babies similar to hens and chicks. I like to grow them in bowls and pots around the garden and in vases inside the house. Very pretty in a tall clear vase with colored rocks or crystals in the bottom. They are also useful in aquariums for fish to eat but be aware they will eat all of the plant!

Questions & Comments

When you put these in a vase with colored rocks do you also put dirt in there. How often do you water them?
I would love to have a few...thank you.

Sep 15th, 2012 at 5:47:57 PM PDT by

Hi no dirt in vase they float on top of the water so you would just add water to the vase when it gets low there is a photo of this somewhere on pinterest if you can find it. It is interesting to look at!

Sep 16th, 2012 at 7:34:04 AM PDT by

if they are edible to fish are they edible for humans too?

Sep 18th, 2012 at 9:33:41 AM PDT by

I would absolutely not recommend it! From the internet posing the same question :Please don`t eat the water ``lettuce.`` It belongs to the philodendron, or aroid, family, along with dieffenbachia, which is called dumbcane with reference to plant juices that can have a disastrous or deadly effect when chewed. The botanical name is Pistia stratiotes, and though it has clogged waterways and ponds in warm parts of America and isn`t allowed to cross some state lines, this aquatic makes an excellent houseplant to float in any tank or deep ceramic container. I have seen it grown well near sunny windows as well as in fluorescent-light gardens. Link: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-04-16/news/8904040825_1_water-lettuce-water-lilies-and-lotus-plant-moves

Sep 18th, 2012 at 9:38:42 AM PDT by

water lettuce babies is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category