Rotala sp. 'butterfly' morphology change - Page 2 - General Aquarium Plants Discussions

hooha · 07-01-2009, 10:58 PM

we could really use some emersed setups with flowers for these Rotala species (I'm looking at ashappard/Bushan/Cavan/anyone else who can get emersed flowers - I suck at it

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Zapins · 07-01-2009, 11:05 PM

Argh! I had a R. mac flower a few weeks ago, but I didn't have time to photograph it. No worries, I'm expecting some other R. mac (the red type) to flower soon.

Interesting conversions though

Cavan Allen · 07-02-2009, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by hooha

we could really use some emersed setups with flowers for these Rotala species (I'm looking at ashappard/Bushan/Cavan/anyone else who can get emersed flowers - I suck at it

)

We're working on a few. Never hurts to just throw a few stems outside.

It looks to me like all of these being discussed are probably macrandra cultivars.

hooha · 07-02-2009, 09:06 AM

For whatever reason, I've had little success with the getting emersed growth established in my outdoor tubs. I get emersed growth on stems, but once I try to further convert them to 'swampy soil' they start to dry out on me......

I agree that likely these are macandra varieties. It will interesting to see how many different varieties of macandra these will turn out to be.....

ingg · 07-02-2009, 02:09 PM

My Butterfly remains dark red like when I got it, save one stem - I also got one branching off that looks like macrandra green.

ashappard · 07-02-2009, 04:33 PM

ditto ingg's comment
I have 2 stems that have switched to green leaves
and the rest are magenta.

not a very good pic

as far as R.macrandra variants go, this one is kinda cool
if you like the variegated plants.

Tex Gal · 07-02-2009, 05:37 PM

ashappard - R.macrandra variegated -loving this one!

Here is my R. macrandra narrow - reverting back... There are at least 4 stems doing this.

SniperLk · 07-02-2009, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ashappard

ditto ingg's comment

This picture makes me think of ludwigia inclinata
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=N&tab=wi&um=1

rich815 · 07-02-2009, 07:17 PM

This is almost identical to how mine grew for me too. Maybe a tad darker. I finally moved on from it as I found it finicky. One month it would be gorgeous and thrive, then one week start to get crinkled at the gorwing tips, then recover and and other few weeks of thriving, then again. Pearled like a mutha' for me.....

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Originally Posted by ashappard

as far as R.macrandra variants go, this one is kinda cool
if you like the variegated plants.

HoustonFishFanatic · 07-02-2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ashappard

yeah very nice. Good detail on the leaf margin.
Being toothed like that means its a Rotala macrandra variant right?

Yes,looks a lot like a miniature R macrandra.

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Originally Posted by hooha

we could really use some emersed setups with flowers for these Rotala species (I'm looking at ashappard/Bushan/Cavan/anyone else who can get emersed flowers - I suck at it

)

I have a couple of stems in the emersed set up but looks like they need a lot of light.