This slender leaved species from Sri Lanka is an undemanding plant for the aquarium foreground. It is quite a slow-growing species and will benefit from a nutrient-rich substrate. Once settled, the plant will propagate by producing numerous runners, forming a compact group that can look very effective. Many suppliers still rather confusingly refer to this plant by the erroneous C. nevillii nametag, but there is speculation that the real C. nevillii has never been used in aquaria, and all plants grown are actually C. x willisii.