Half Submerged Plants

[TallTree01]

Can aquatic plants survive with roots submerged below soil and water but still have half their leaves out of the water?

 

[SO19Firearms]

Alot can, this is how they're grown in nurseries. True aquatics like vallis and stem plants not so much tho.

 

[TallTree01]

Ok. Can you give me some examples that are easy to grow please?

 

[SO19Firearms]

Anubius, Crypts, Swords, Ferns, HC Cuba, Utricularia, Hairgrass, Glosso etc....
 

 

[phantomlink]

Plants that are grown like that though, will melt most of the time when fully submerged into a tank but they grow back, all depending what your planning to do with your half water, half air plants

 

[SO19Firearms]

 You'll be hard pressed to melt a Java fern or anubias tho.........

 
Edit: Scratch that - Zikofski can melt Anubias.....

 

[Zikofski]

omg ye that is annoying, when my anubias plants melt in the tank, i guess tho its better for the companies as plants outside of water will grow better than in water less parameters to get wrong i guess thats my presumption

 

[frapadoodle]

Yes, they grow faster emmersed rather than submersed.
Bacopa, does well emmersed. Fully submersed the leaf shape changes.
A few non aquatics will grow with "wet feet". Arcorus/Japanese rush, will grow with its roots underwater, but leaves in the open air.
Most of the other plants that have been listed grow naturally in areas that flood, and have adapted to suit.

 

[TallTree01]

Wow. Thanks. Reason for asking is my sister is setting up a green tree frog enclosure and wants some live plants poking out of the ' lake ' she is going to create.