Plant Id

[atuin]

Hi - any chance you could help me with identification of those plants? ive got them as part of "ebay plant pack" - managed to identify rest of pack but never seen those in tropical fish tank. Any ideas if those are even aquatic plants?

three suspects together



close-ups of 2

- dracaena?

fourth one

 

[angelfishguy]

i think the first 3 are non-aquatic
not to sure about the 4th

 

[atuin]

As for first three - that confirms what I was afraid . Will move them to normal plant pots - maybe few day submersion wont be too damaging. Fourth will stay atm in tank probably.

Shame that another Ebay seller gone into selling non-aquatic plants in aquatic plant sets just to fill the box and save few quid

 

[angelfishguy]

i could be wrong,
id wait for more expierenced advice but in the mean time have a read of this

 

[atuin]

Ive read that "non-aquatic plants" before ive even considered posting mine . I went also through dozen difrent aquatic plants guides and plant indexes - havent found those plants in any of them in aquatics section.

 

[aaronnorth]

The last one, i think, is aquatic. Could be an echinodorus sp.

 

[three-fingers]

Yeah, agree with Aaron, four looks like it could be emergent growth of an Echinodorus sp., the plant behind it in the pic however is Selanginella wildenowii or "Malayan aqua fern", another non-aquatic that should be removed.

Two of the 3 suspects are as you correctly identified, not sure what the red-rimmed on is, but it's certainly non-aquatic. I also see aquatic Bacopa caroliniana to the left of that photo, so at least some plants you got are good .

 

[atuin]

First three are now transfered into own pots outside tank.
Fourth one looks like got afraid that it will be binned and started to grow off stem with new plantlet at the end and behave like proper aquatic
As for "Malayan aqua fern" - its bit cofusing as still quite a few web sites classify it as aquatic . better be on safe side = its out.

As for rest of plants - those are defo aquatics valis, mad growing amazon swords and few other.

Thx all for helping me with those

 

[Deleted member 55926]

The first one, with the red/pink trim is almost certainly the same type of plant I was interested in. I have a thread about it here:

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/313287-what-is-this-plant-called

This weekend just gone I spotted it in my local LFS and although I can't remember it right now, Dracaena -something rings a bell. I looked it up recently and it's non-aquatic. The second one is the same, I think.