Foreground Plants for Aquarium “Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss”

Foreground Plants for Aquarium Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss

Foreground Plants for Aquarium “Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss” – Hyophila Involuta (Hook.) Jaeg., or known as cement moss that is aquatic moss plant from family Pottiaceae. Cement moss often called star moss or twisted moss. In the market, this moss plant known as “Tortula Ruralis.” This aquatic moss plant can found in the Pacific, the Middle East, North America, Asia, South America, South Africa, North Africa and Australia.

It can live in many types climate, including deserts, boreal areas, arctic and temperate areas. This plant grown in grassland, tundra, sagebrush, coniferous forest and another habitat types.

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Star Moss is a lawn-forming moss with upright shoots. It has leaves like tongue grow densely and has spiral shapes around the stem. The midrib of the leaf from this plant does not reach the leaf tip, and the in the shoot tip of this plant, the leaves form a rosulate group, which makes it as a little star.

Foreground Plants for Aquarium Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss

Foreground Plants for Aquarium “Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss”

This plant can live in limestone rocks, moist house foundations (That’s why it called cement moss), walls on the shore and grown on the rocks. Like another moss plant, it can cultivated with cutting or dividing.

Foreground Plants for Aquarium Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss

Foreground Plants for Aquarium “Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss”

There many reports from hobbies aquarium about its suitability tank cultivation. And it is not sure if all these reports refer to Hyophila involuta. But, in my opinion, this plant it’s difficult for planting in aquarium cause star moss is too hard to make it become a true aquatic plant.

Foreground Plants for Aquarium Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss

Foreground Plants for Aquarium “Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss”

It’s will grow better when planted in emersed. Star Moss is very suitable for terrariums. I do not recommend planting it on low tech aquarium. It’s too hard to survive for this plant to live. Read our article about Plants for Low Tech Aquarium, here.

Foreground Plants for Aquarium Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss

Foreground Plants for Aquarium “Hyophila Involuta or Star Moss or Cement Moss”

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That’s all about “Hyophila Involuta” whose known as Star Moss or Cement Moss or Twisted Moss that is one of Foreground Plants for Aquarium types.

Plant Profile

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Division: Bryophyta
  • Class: Bryopsida
  • Order: Pottiales
  • Family: Pottiaceae
  • Genus: Hyophila
  • Origin: North America, the Pacific, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North and South Africa, South America, and Australia
  • Binomial Name: Hyóphila involúta (Hook.) Jaeg.
  • Common Name: Cement Moss, Star Moss, Twisted Moss
  • Difficulty: Difficult
  • Lighting Needs: Medium to High
  • CO2 Needs: Low to High
  • Temperature: 18 – 3 Degree Celsius
  • PH: 6.0 – 7.5
  • Growth Speed: Very Slow
  • Position in Aquarium: Foreground, Planting on Hardscape
  • Suitability for planted in Aquarium: Restricted
  • Suitable for Beginner: No

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