Can Anyone ID This Plant?

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Offline Extreme_One

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Can anyone ID this plant?
« on: March 24, 2016, 08:06:27 AM »
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I'm not very good with plant names.  ::)

Does anyone recognise the plant, with red tips to the leaves, in the photos?


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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2016, 08:51:16 AM »
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I'm pretty sure I had some of this in a mixed bag of plants I bought. Could be red/variegated bacopa? But I'm sure someone with more expertise will know.  ;)

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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2016, 09:45:33 AM »
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After looking again it may be ludwigia?


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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2016, 04:17:39 PM »
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Thanks BDS. I can't make my mind up.

It looks a bit like both but not exactly like either.

Anyone else have an idea?

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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2016, 05:11:27 PM »
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Hello Simon,

Spookily, in my fairly fruitless search for the "recommended" red plants in local LFS's, I think I may have bought a clump of this "on a whim". Of course, it wasn't labelled, and between watching the cricket, I have been trying to identify it! I think it could be an Alternanthera. The photo on the Aquarium Gardens website of A. reineckii lilacina looks similar, whereas photos on some others don't. If it is that, it will probably struggle I'm my 125l. But hey-ho, I had visited 3 LFS's and drawn a blank........so, in at the deep-end!

(Sorry I couldn't post the picture......I am waiting for a course of instruction from grand-daughter!)

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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2016, 05:34:36 PM »
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Thanks Skittler. Another worthy contender.

Not convinced 100% by any of the suggestions so far.

But then mine isn't in perfect condition and had been in relatively low light so it might not look truly indicative of the species.

I've added a couple of root tabs beneath it and it's in better light now.

Maybe it will pick up and I'll be able to identify it ...

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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2016, 06:02:01 PM »
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One of the problems with identifying aquatic plants is that they show what is known as "plasticity", that is they can exhibit a variety of quite different looking growth forms according to the conditions in which they are grown. Add to that the fact that particular forms have been artificially selected over they years for a particular look and it's a tricky business being certain of identification. The same applies even to the relatively well-studied British aquatic plants, so that many of the Water Crowfoots and plants of the genus Callitriche can only be reliably identified when they flower, and even then only by microscopic examination.

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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2016, 06:39:28 PM »
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Thanks Richard.

Whilst I didn't know the correct name for it, I think I was on the right lines in understanding why identification might prove difficult.

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Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2016, 12:01:42 PM »
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It looks like a plant I have in my tank, the underside of the leaves are red.

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