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[mattbeau]

This plant grabed my eye at he lfs so i picked it up
it was listed as "assorted plants

strangly enough with all of my fumbles and flops this plant is pearling like mad, theres actually two, the other one I had forgotten on the kitchen counter for two days (it may come back to life)

I looked through the bistall website but it doesnt look like any of them that I could notice

any ideas? heres a pic

 

[kenneth_kpe]

i dont know if its just me but it looks like the plant potted outside my house.... it might not be aquatic ? but its pearling !!??!!?!??!

 

[The-Wolf]

an anubis of some kind?

 

[kenneth_kpe]

does it have a rhizome ? hmmm identify the plant game !: )

 

[mattbeau]

does it have a rhizome ? hmmm identify the plant game !: )

ahh thats what that is called,

yes it has a rhizome

"an anubis of some kind?"

Anubias barteri v. barteri - leaves are too broad and too light colored, stems are green
Anubias barteri . Coffeefolia - looks nothing like it
Anubias barteri v. nana -looks nothing like it
Anubias barteri var. caladiifolia 1705 -notta

Anubias barteri var. angustifolia (afzelii) quite possibly the one, but I havent found a different picture that matches mine, and the leaves seem a bit long, and a bit more rounded than mine

but its pearling !!??!!?!??!

when I say pearling (hoping I have the terminoligy correct), there are multiple bubbles being release from the plant, oddly from what apears to be from the base of the plant, its alot like 2 bubbles a second (little ones really)

in other words resperating

 

[kenneth_kpe]

hmmm might be an anubias species then........ err.r.. dunno

 

[mattbeau]

maybe, though I'm not sure

this could all be just acedemic as I dont know if the plant is just still young and the leaves still have more growing to go

 

[Lateral Line]

Very few plants that grow from a rhizome tolerate having the rhizome buried. It is normally attached to wood or rock. It could be the rhizome is rotting and the bubbles you are seeing is a by product of that.

Pearling, the normal release of Oxygen as a by product of photosynthesis, releases bubbles near the site of the photosynthesis, i.e. the leaves.

My first thoughts on seeing the picture was "that doesn't look aquatic but if it is, it is probably an Anubias".

 

[mattbeau]

Very few plants that grow from a rhizome tolerate having the rhizome buried. It is normally attached to wood or rock. It could be the rhizome is rotting and the bubbles you are seeing is a by product of that.

Well the "pearling" was directly linked to lighting, I had the light off for about 15 minutes while trying to take a picture, the pearling stopped, upon turning the light on , it started "pearling about 5 minutes later.

My first thoughts on seeing the picture was "that doesn't look aquatic but if it is, it is probably an Anubias".

actually some anubias species are amphibias, live on land or water, perhaps this is a more terestrial variation

 

[Lateral Line]

Yeah, maybe. Most Anubias photosynthesize very slowing, their metabolism is slow but sure. Pearling is more common on fast metabloic rate plants. Whatever, if it is doing okay - so be it!

 

[mattbeau]

lateral line,

perhapse, I'm not really entirely sure, I mean its still doing the pearling like thing, and the money wart has started too(from the leaves though), but I thinkthe anubias "pearling" is actually coming from the rhizome, my other anubias type plant (same speciaes) is starting to show regrowth in trimmed areas after 2 days of sitting on the kitchen counter (woops)thogh it isnt doing the same thing

now the rhizome is also a storage area for nutiants, is it possible that it maybe just releasing extra nutriants instead of good old o2, just a thought

now are most rhizome carying species generally atatched to something? the roots are pretty thich and I would thing it might look funny


thanks

 

[Lateral Line]

The nutrients stored in rhizomes and bulbs are not gases though. They tend to store photosynthesis products there, sugars and so forth.

Yes, most rhizomed plants are attached to something.

 

[mattbeau]

The nutrients stored in rhizomes and bulbs are not gases though. They tend to store photosynthesis products there, sugars and so forth.

Yes, most rhizomed plants are attached to something.

I've gone ahead and strapped it to a rock, its amazing the root structeure that has developed over the week. with the extra height I'm sure things should only be better

what ever the plant is its defiately thriving.


thankyou everyone

 

[Lateral Line]

You may find that the plant produces different leaves now, and more closely resembles one of the "aquatic species". Often, marginal plants which can grow in or out of water, have a very different leaf form when immersed or emergent. If it is a true aquatic, I'd expect the unexpected.

 

[mattbeau]

well this is definately far better than culturing the aneberic bacteria like I was thinking of doing before

I may have to start fertilizing with nitrate the way the plants are going (I had to trim an anacharis that had reached the surface of the water and started to bow downward today.

so will the roots eventually take hold of the dececor I have it attached ? or should I expect re attatching it from time to time