page_title: Potamogeton lucens
section_title: Cultivation
hierarchical_section_title: Potamogeton lucens / Cultivation
caption_attribution_description: Potamogeton lucensDeutsch: Spiegelndes Laichkraut - aufgenommen in einem Kiessee bei Pasewalk (Vorpommern).
context_page_description: Potamogeton lucens, or shining pondweed, is an aquatic perennial plant native to Eurasia and North Africa. It grows in relatively deep, still or slow-flowing, calcareous freshwater habitats.
context_section_description: Shining pondweed is rarely cultivated, even though it is both easy to grow and an attractive plant. Its distinctive, large, transparent netted leaves are unlike any other commonly cultivated pond plant. In common with other pondweeds of this group it roots poorly from stem cuttings and is best propagated by division of the rhizomes. It is easy to grow in a garden pond or even in a barrel, but unlike some other submerged plants needs to be able to root in a suitable substrate such as sand or aquatic compost. Plants being established should be weighted down initially to allow them to root. Where waterfowl grazing is likely, protection will be necessary, especially in the early summer growth period.
caption: Shining pondweed flowering in a lake in Vorpommern (Western Pomerania), Germany.
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