Plants
Dwarf mondo grass 'Nana'
Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nana'
BeginnerFine in a closed jar
Dark grassy tufts that give a jar its sense of scale. Slow.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 2,500 to 15,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 40 to 90 % RH
- Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.
- Temperature
- 5 to 27 °C
- Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.
- Dies at
- below -20 or above 35 °C
- Days beyond these temperatures kill it.
- Soil pH
- 5.5 to 7 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 0.2 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 0.2 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Copes with wet
- fair
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- good
- Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.
- Copes with shade
- good
- How well it holds on in dim light.
- Copes with drying
- good
- How well it survives the jar drying out.
- Water use
- 0.07 ml/cm²/day
- Water drawn up from its roots per cm² of leaves in room air; a sealed jar cuts this to a fraction and returns it down the glass.
- Leaf drop
- 2 %/month
- Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.
- Soft leaves
- no
- Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.
- Full size
- 10 cm tall, 25 cm wide
- Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.
Care
- Day length
- 10 to 14 h
- Substrate
- Moist
What kills it
- full submersion
- slugs
- stagnant waterlogged roots
Description
Shops sometimes sell it for aquariums, but it is not a water plant and fades if kept underwater. In a humid closed jar it does fine. Just keep the base of the tuft above any standing water.
Also called dwarf lilyturf, mini mondo grass.
Estimated, where sources were thin: submersion intolerance is hobby knowledge not on fetched pages; temp_c; growth rates; humidity_rh_pct.