Zapins

Great! I'd love to get back to photographing plants for the plantfinder. I found a nice hair grass species that seems to grow new plantlets on the tips of old leaves. The leaves then droop down and the new plantlet inserts into the gravel and grows. Probably the fastest growing plant I've ever seen. I'll have to post some pics for ID but I haven't seen it before on APC so I'd bet its new or uncommon.

Cavan Allen

Where did you find it?

Zapins

On google maps (or click link) copy and paste 38.597376,-121.507167 exactly like that into the search bar. That is exactly to within about 10 feet of where I found it along the bank.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=ll

green857

Hey I think I have that hairgrass too! is it pretty tall when it gets little brown swellings which can then root correct. I guess we need pics!

asukawashere

You must bring some back with you this summer. This is not a request, it's a demand.

I'm almost certain that that photo is not the correct species. If anything, it looks more like a Ruellia inflorescence than a Hygrophila. Here's a photo from when my H. corymbosa 'Angustifolia' bloomed:


Like the H. corymbosa 'Kompact', 'Angustifolia' has a flower divided into an upper and lower lip, with the bottom lip being composed of three joined petals with a somewhat bullated texture... Unfortunately this photo is really blurry! I do have some 'Angustifolia' growing submersed in my show tank, though, so I can probably emerse and flower it again. Would rather wait 'til spring, though, since it's such a tall plant and I don't really have room for it indoors...

Remind me to send you the other photos for the PF update. I tried sending them a week or two back but the email exceeded your allowable attachment size and got bounced back to me... I was too lazy at the time to reattach LOL.

asukawashere

Hey, look! An update!

So, actually, my fishroom is currently trying to recover from the chaos that was the NEC Convention. Also I bought a greenhouse kit, of which I have thus far managed to assemble one wall... in my defnse, this past weekend was rainy and gross and not at all suited to the assembly of greenhouses. Last weekend I was at said convention.

Aaaanyway, I think I missed the actual act of blooming last weekend, but here's a photo I snapped shortly before I left for the con:

This is Rotala sp. 'Mini Butterfly' - I can never remember whether 'Mini Butterfly' was confirmed to be a variant form of R. macrandra, or if it's still an unidentified species, though. Anyone more familiar with the genus know?

asukawashere

Yes, I'm still alive!
I am also very pleased to report that my greenhouse is now up and running, and happily producing much vegetation. Especially of the stem variety. Most importantly, the plants are becoming quite bushy and making side shoots.

An eclectic mix of species are currently blooming on me - seems the Persicaria species never stop blooming, really, but this particular photo features Persicaria sp. 'Sao Paolo' - which, incidentally, is huge compared to its more delicate submersed form:


Meanwhile, the stray stems of Bacopa caroliniana that I've been neglecting for several years now finally blossomed:


And as an unusual non-stem representative (also, this one's been living indoors, not in the greenhouse), my Cryptocoryne undulata pot has an open spathe right now:

Two more spathes are in progress, one on the same plant as the one in the photo (you can see the tip of it in the bottom-left), and one on a plant more toward the center of the pot - the flowering one is a daughter plant, I think, though there are enough similarly-sized plants in the pot that I can't quite tell which was the original...

Also, a bonus snapshot of wild blooms:

This Potamogeton amplifolius was encountered at the last CAPE meeting. Interesting plant, but a bit too large for aquarium use...

wabisabi

Yes, 'butterfly' is a variant of R. macrandra.

asukawashere

I suspected as much, but wasn't totally sure. Thanks for the confirmation!

asukawashere

Lots to share this time! You may have noticed the change to the thread title, as indicated therein, I intend to share some photos from my greenhouse as well as the continuing array of inflorescences that said greenhouse produces.

So, some cool new flowers to start:

Gratiola aurea


Eichornia crassipes (Water Hyacinth) growing in my pond


Bacopa madagascariensis

And some vegetation:

Acmella repens


Persicaria sp. 'Kawagoeanum'


Rotala sp. 'Green' and Ludwigia cf. suffruticosa


Greenhouse tubs:




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Fun times, I tell you, peeps!