{"id":350,"date":"2021-07-10T19:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2021-07-10T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:29:37","slug":"penicillus-pyriformis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Penicillus pyriformis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A unique species of Penicillus<\/em> that features a tall thin stem with fine tapered filaments and a flattened top. This particular species can grow much taller than other species of Penicillus<\/em>, up to about 8″ . It’s abundant on the reef flat and among sea grass beds.\u00a0 Its root-like structure is a large bulb with a series of rhizoids that anchor it to substrate and sometimes rocks. It occurs in shallow calm protected water, but is also found as deep as 100 ft. In the aquarium the mature plant often dies to produce new plants at its base. Like most calcareous stem plants, it needs a deep sand bed of 4″ or more to grow in the aquarium. Calcium supplementation is needed. Not palatable to fish or inverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientific Name: Penicillus pyriformis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common Name: Shaving Brush<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin: Atlantic, Caribbean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depth Collected: 1-30 Feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum Height : 8″<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth Rate: Moderate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light: Moderate to High<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature: 76-86<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Propagation: Fragmentation, Sporulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficulty: Easy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food Value: Not Palatable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutrient Uptake: Fair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flow Rate: Low to Moderate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A unique species of Penicillus that features a tall thin stem with fine tapered filaments and a flattened top. This particular species can grow much taller than other species of Penicillus, up to about 8″ . It’s abundant on the reef flat and among sea grass beds.\u00a0 Its root-like structure is a large bulb with … Continue reading “Penicillus pyriformis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcareous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}