🌿 True Duckweed (Lemna Species) – Ultra-Fast Growing, High-Value Water Plant

Ideal for Aquaponics • Water Purification • Micro-Farming • Eco-Towers

Price: R40 per 250 ml portion (fresh scoop)

⭐ What You’re Getting

This is True Duckweed (Lemna spp.), mainly Lemna minor — the tiny, bright-green floating plant known for forming a clean, even “green carpet” on water surfaces.

It is one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth, capable of:

Doubling every 24–72 hours under good conditions

Extracting nutrients rapidly from the water

Producing dense, high-quality biomass with very little space

🌱 Why Duckweed Is So Valuable

✔ Ultra-Fast Growth

Duckweed multiplies quickly, giving you nearly continuous harvest cycles. Once established, you can scoop some off daily or every few days without slowing the colony.

✔ Natural Water Polisher

Lemna species pull out nitrogen, ammonia, phosphates, and other excess nutrients — leaving water clearer and more stable. It’s one of the simplest natural tools for improving:

Pond clarity

Aquaponics system balance

Fish tank water quality

Fertiliser runoff areas

✔ High Protein Live Feed

Duckweed typically contains 30–45% protein (dry weight). Perfect as a supplement for:

Tilapia and goldfish / Koi and pond fish / Chickens (when dried) /Compost worms / Snails, tadpoles, shrimp

✔ Helps Reduce Algae

By shading the water surface and absorbing nutrients, duckweed naturally competes with and suppresses algae growth.

✔ Low Maintenance, High Output

No soil, no fuss — it floats, grows, doubles, and keeps producing. It’s one of the easiest “micro crops” anyone can manage.

🌎 How It Fits the MaterialCycle Vision

Our entire approach is built around small-scale regenerative loops — lightweight systems that clean water, cycle nutrients, and generate useful biomass.

Duckweed is a perfect example:

a plant that turns excess nutrients into a valuable resource while keeping the system in balance.

This is the same principle behind the MaterialCycle Towers we design:

fast biology, simple materials, low energy inputs, and circular flows.

When you buy duckweed from us, you're supporting and participating in that bigger regenerative model.

💧 Ideal For

Aquaponics and hydroponics / Water polishing and nutrient removal / Natural filtration systems

Live food for small fish / Compost accelerators / Eco-Tower experiments / Edible biomass for micro-farms

📦 Availability

Harvested fresh from clean, circulating systems.

Pickup in Cape Town