Plant Identification

[jonathand]

Hi,

I found these plants for sale in Ikea today, all labelled 'Vattenral'.

Can anyone help identify what anything actually is, as that must be their own name for them.

They claim to be suitable for aquarium use but I wanted to make sure!

I have more close up pictures of each one if necessary.

Thanks

 

[ian]

1. Ludwigia peruviana
2. lilaeopsis
3. ?Bacopa?
4. Cabomba caroliniana

Yes, they are aquarium plants. How much are they selling these for?

 

[jonathand]

Hi, they were only £1.87 each which I thought seemed good as some places charge £5 a plant!

There was another variety that might have been java fern or anubias but they only had one and it looked damaged so I left it.

If anyone can confirm the 3rd one that would be great.

Will have a read up on the others now

 

[ian]

3rd is deffo bacopa monnieri.

To be fair thats not bad price, as they are potted as well. Good find.

 

[lljdma06]

What an interesting way to package the plants. I've never seen that before. They look pretty good to me. How big are they?

 

[ian]

it looks like IKEA have to many ice cream sundee cups!

 

[lljdma06]

it looks like IKEA have to many ice cream sundee cups!

 

[jonathand]

Yeah each cup is about a pint, the water fill line is marked 500ml.

The plants do look look bigger than they are due to magnification, and I picked the best looking ones I could find!

They have 14th January printed on the label so can't have been sat there very long either.

 

[ian]

you can imagine the Swedish, *sweedish accent* Whvat can wve do wvith all veese toffee svundee cups, Lars?, I don't know Erik, lets just buy shed loads of aquarium plants and put them in them. Wvat a brvilliant idea.

 

[lljdma06]

you can imagine the Swedish, *sweedish accent* Whvat can wve do wvith all veese toffee svundee cups, Lars?, I don't know Erik, lets just buy shed loads of aquarium plants and put them in them. Wvat a brvilliant idea.

Sorry, we are using your thread as Mod Comedy Central. It's funny, very unusual packaging.

I'm getting hungry for a sunday...

 

[jonathand]

cheers everyone