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[TigerIssey]

Definatley not L.Aromatica,



It is sometimes reffered to as "rice paddy"

If you ask me it looks like a ludwigia sp. going by the leaves although the red stem throws me. It may not be aquatic, or it my be in its emersed form. I would plant it and see what happens with regards to new growth.

That picture is not L.aromatica it is L.hippuroides. I can email pictures to you from book if Ineed to. Look in The Aquarium Plant Handbook with foreword by Takashi Amano!!

 

[saltynay]

Well from my reading I have foudn L. hippuroides is a synonym of aromatica (aromatica being described 53 years earlier) and hence the two species are the same but the name can be interchanged. The plant in the above mentioned book is similar as the one I have although I can't tell if it has serrated leaves and there seems to be a lack of flower buds on the example in the book.

 

[aaronnorth]

i have just found this: http/www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumap...discussion.html

It is discussing the 2 species. The 1st, and same picture i gave is L.Aromatica, and the 2nd picture (also the picture in the original post) is the emersed form of L.Aromatica. The 3rd picture is of L.Hippuroides which you can see is slightly different.

Here is another post on LA. http/ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&...romatica#p17722

 

[Nick16]

i have to back Aaron up with this one, the pic he gave IS L.aromatica, i seem to remember seeing a very nice scape with it in on uKaps but it eludes me now who did it.

 

[TigerIssey]

All I have tried to Say, is That I have different in a published book. Do you believe the internet if it tells you to jump off a cliff???
I tell you what I won't bother to help again shall I
If you want me to email the pages out of the book PM me otherwise I give up

 

[Nick16]

i dont use the internet. i keep my tanks more for the plants than the fish.

from personal experiance i tried growing L. Aromatica and i couldnt get the tips to turn red so i gave up, my lighting was to low, i dont use the internet, most of it is crap anyway.

 

[TigerIssey]

i dont use the internet. i keep my tanks more for the plants than the fish.

from personal experiance i tried growing L. Aromatica and i couldnt get the tips to turn red so i gave up, my lighting was to low, i dont use the internet, most of it is crap anyway.

PM your email address, I will send you the two pages out of the book. You will see there is a huge difference in the pictures of the two species. I originally bought this book 2-3 yrs ago to prevent me buying none aquatic plants.

 

[saltynay]

So if I want it to to flower it will need to grow above the surface? I take it the general decision is that its L.A aswell?

 

[Nick16]

i dont have any plant books but i still know what plants are aquatic or not. mostly its the dracena species that the LFS sell but they are selling more and more nower days. i just know what im buying rather than guessing or just wanting 'a plant'

 

[aaronnorth]

I have just recieved the email and i think you have got confused, here are the pictures of both plant species, compared with the original picture, and as you can clearly see it matches L.aromatica (emersed growth) and the picture i posted easrlier is the submerged growth of L.aromatica.

Hope that clears it up, Aaron

Thanks.

 

[TigerIssey]

The book says it will flower emerged in a terrarium however it can grow submerged whilst not being truly aquatic. Alot of species we grow in our tanks are like this, then there are the true aquatic plants aswell. It may flower submerged it may not. It may wait until the leaves break the water surface then flower there.

Have emailed book pages to some people, if anyone else wants them, I will email if you pm me the email address, however I cannot post them here due to copywrite laws.

I have just recieved the email and i think you have got confused, here are the pictures of both plant species, compared with the original picture, and as you can clearly see it matches L.aromatica (emersed growth) and the picture i posted easrlier is the submerged growth of L.aromatica.

The picture in the book is submerged.

 

[aaronnorth]

The book says it will flower emerged in a terrarium however it can grow submerged whilst not being truly aquatic. Alot of species we grow in our tanks are like this, then there are the true aquatic plants aswell. It may flower submerged it may not. It may wait until the leaves break the water surface then flower there.

Have emailed book pages to some people, if anyone else wants them, I will email if you pm me the email address, however I cannot post them here due to copywrite laws.

I have just recieved the email and i think you have got confused, here are the pictures of both plant species, compared with the original picture, and as you can clearly see it matches L.aromatica (emersed growth) and the picture i posted easrlier is the submerged growth of L.aromatica.

The picture in the book is submerged.

Either way the original picture still matches L.Aromatica.

 

[TigerIssey]

Have you not thought that the picture in the book is how it would be when you buy it. Your picture has considerable growth so is difficult to compare to a newly bought plant in this case.

 

[Nick16]

funnily enough i bought one of these from aquafleur and it was exactly liked this. and you can guess what it was marked up as.

i just couldnt get it to turn pink for love nor passion.

 

[aaronnorth]

Have you not thought that the picture in the book is how it would be when you buy it. Your picture has considerable growth so is difficult to compare to a newly bought plant in this case.

lets ignore the picture i posted for now... Look at the original picture what saltynay posted, then look at the picture of L.Aromatica from the book - they are identical.