istellas

Hi all,

yesterday I bought a floating plant but unfortunately I can't find what it is... I don't even know if it is an aquarium plant for sure.
I would appreciate if you could help me recognize what is the name of the plant. As you can see at the second photo, there is a flower coming up from the inside of this plant. Also, I noticed that the rhizome of the plant looks like the rhizome of eichornia crassipes, and the leaves have a spongy feeling at their bottom that allow the plant to float...

Thank you very much in advance...

ryzilla

water lettuce

istellas

I searched for water lettuce at the net and I came up that water lettuce is the same plant as pistia stratiotes. I have pistia stratiotes in my aquarium but it doesn't look like that at all.
Here is a photo of my pistia stratiotes. Are you sure that this plant is pistia stratiotes? If yes, then what is the next plant?

Thanx in advance.

LastAndroid

I'm not expert, but I think the first is water lettuce and the second is water cabbage, Samolus valerandi.

Cavan Allen

Both plants are Pistia stratiotes but grown under different conditions. The second is definitely not Samolus, which is a rooted rosette and not a floater.