Echinodorus Midfleur - New Plants for Planted Aquariums

armedbiggiet · 11-06-2009, 09:39 PM

does any one have a pic or know a link of the Echinodorus Midfleur? or is there a such thing?

rich815 · 11-07-2009, 09:29 AM

A google search shows a link with someone talking about it back Feb. Might try to contact them.

marrow · 11-07-2009, 01:58 PM

yes it exists, it is a lovely red sword that actually stays small. I passed mine on to my brother as I moved towards a higher tech tank, I think I got mine from Aaron. It is actually my favorite sword. If you are interested in picking one up put a want add in the swap and shop and if one does not turn up, I will contact my computer illiterate brother and track one down for you.

armedbiggiet · 11-10-2009, 12:29 AM

Do you mean AaronT? the one in Maryland? I just want to see a pic first since someone told me it looks like E. Aflame which I have a bunch. I did find that link back in Feb. but it just weird that no other info on the web at all, not even a pic.

marrow · 11-10-2009, 07:50 AM

ahh you are spelling it wrong, it is midifleur, you forgot the i. You will find many pics now. Mine stayed all red all the time, some of the pics showed it green under lower lights but I never grew it under low light.

LVKSPlantlady · 11-10-2009, 12:39 PM

I finally got the two I ordered

...dont have time now to take pics...but so far so good the leaves still look alive... just a few light red leaves though, more pinkish than red really...nothing close to the pics of the E. aflame! Or even close to a another sword i bought as E. red Rubin...it's new leaves are really dark brownish red and turn a darker greenish red as they get bigger could this plant be E. midifleur too? Or just closely realted?

I'll post pics later...

It's later... well the next morning...pics turned out like crap!

OMG there is alredy a new leaf growing on the bigger of the two, looks dark pink. The smaller one is behind the E. Red Rubin and is hard to see but so far no new ones! Also did some looking around on google image and E. midifleur and E. red Rubin are not the same, close...but no

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LVKSPlantlady · 11-11-2009, 12:04 PM

OK took some new ones and when I imported them they did not look that bad well you can't see any of the old leaves just the stocks and the little new leaf coming up! Not the best of pics, but you can see it and It's growing fast! I took pics last night ( the 1st pic) and then again at 1030 am my time(2nd pic) and you could see the size difrence with the naked eye! And after looking at the other plant again this morning it looks like it too has a new leaf already too!

armedbiggiet · 11-17-2009, 06:02 AM

different as the stem are much longer and skinner.

armedbiggiet · 11-17-2009, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by marrow

ahh you are spelling it wrong, it is midifleur, you forgot the i. You will find many pics now. Mine stayed all red all the time, some of the pics showed it green under lower lights but I never grew it under low light.

hahaha I was copy and pasted someone's post and now you are right, there are lost pics of it. Does Echinodorus MidiFleur also the same as E. Kleiner Bär??

LVKSPlantlady · 11-17-2009, 02:14 PM

Ok, here are some new pics now it has 2 new leaves and I cleaned the glass!

I've had this plant for not quite 2 weeks! I hope it keeps growing this fast!

The other one has only put out one new leaf and it does not look as good as these 2 do! It was shaded by a fast growing Aponogeton, I cut all the leaves off it today so the little sword could get more light for a few weeks anyways