Help me ID these plants.

[Spilk]

Now I know there's the terrestrial ribbon plants in there, but whatever those go in and out of the tank depending on mood.

My question is the two varieties of plant that the arrows plant to. One is a really stiff grass plant, and the other is a sword of some kind--which has sent a stem thing up to the top of the water and at the end of the stem is like a white . . . bushy . . . thing.

Anyone help me out here?

 

[Lateral Line]

The stiff grass is a non-aquatic. It is almost certainly one of the things that gets sold as "Mondo Grass" - generally, if a plant can stand up by itself, it is not aquatic - aquatic plants use the water for support and just flop out of water. The green and white plant next to the grass is a Dracæna species, also a non aquatic.

The plant that has put up a flower spike is probably an Aponogeton. I'm guessing at the base there is a small bulb or corm?

 

[Spilk]

The stiff grass is a non-aquatic. It is almost certainly one of the things that gets sold as "Mondo Grass" - generally, if a plant can stand up by itself, it is not aquatic - aquatic plants use the water for support and just flop out of water. The green and white plant next to the grass is a Dracæna species, also a non aquatic.

The plant that has put up a flower spike is probably an Aponogeton. I'm guessing at the base there is a small bulb or corm?

I knew the ribbon plant was non aquatic, but it looks nice and doesn't mind being transplanted every other day (it's actually done well! yay bog plants!).

However, I was afraid the grass would be the same sort of bog plant but wasn't sure. I bought it since it was being sold at a $1 a piece, and I never saw how it did out of the water. It's been doing just fine for the last week or so, but I think I'm going to keep an eye out for things to replace it with soon. Thank you, very much for helping me out here.

As far as the flower spike (which is what exactly?) plant, yeah I actually got it from wallmart as one of a pack of small bulbs for $2. Anything particularly neat about this plant?

 

[Lateral Line]

A flower spike is how the Aponogetons reproduce. They are flowering plants like a daisy of dahlia. It is unlikely that it will be pollinated, some are self fertile though and you can brush pollen around the plant which may then set seed. Planting the seeds in damp sand may get you some new plants.

Many Aponogetons, espeacially cheap ones, do not grow continuously. Rather, they grow when they get wet, flower, then die down. What you should do at this stage is remove the bulb and store it in a cool dark place for a few weeks/months then replant it and it may grow again.

There are some perpetual cultivars that grow all the time without the resting period, but these tend to be quite expensive.

 

[Spilk]

A flower spike is how the Aponogetons reproduce. They are flowering plants like a daisy of dahlia. It is unlikely that it will be pollinated, some are self fertile though and you can brush pollen around the plant which may then set seed. Planting the seeds in damp sand may get you some new plants.

Many Aponogetons, espeacially cheap ones, do not grow continuously. Rather, they grow when they get wet, flower, then die down. What you should do at this stage is remove the bulb and store it in a cool dark place for a few weeks/months then replant it and it may grow again.

There are some perpetual cultivars that grow all the time without the resting period, but these tend to be quite expensive.

So going off that I looked up Aponogetons, but I couldn't find anything that looked like this guy. The Aponogetons trademark seems to be billowy, or wavy, leaves . . . but my plant has perfectly flat oval leaves--do you happen to know what exactly that would fall under? I'm trying to learn as much about it as I can.