New Large Pearl Grass
By: Inspire91
July 10th, 2012
8:34 pm
Hello everyone! A post on a new ground-cover plant is up on my blog AquaBiota! Here is an excerpt of what you’ll find there, for the rest click on the link below! Thank you for taking the time to check out this post ☺ Enjoy!
Inspire91
The most defining characteristics of this plant is that the leaves (almost 1/2 inch max in diameter) are perfectly round circles that come out in pairs at each node along the stem. The lack of any petiole connecting the main stem to the leaf, makes for a very compact-look. When this plant is grown to its fullest it looks like a tight mat of circular leaves. At this time there really isn't any other ground-cover plant like it in the hobby.
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57 comments on "New Large Pearl Grass"
July 11, 2012 at 5:19 am
Very cool looking!
July 11, 2012 at 9:12 am
A scientific name would be helpful.
July 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Or even where it's supposedly from.
July 12, 2012 at 3:46 am
very very nice. Your collections is superb. I love your blog too, many beautiful plants photos inside.
July 12, 2012 at 3:46 am
I bought this plant as Micranthemum sp. New type Montecarlo-3. I think, maybe, it's not Micranthemum and Hemianthus. Interesting plant, grows well in the aquarium.
http://pokoujiaz.exblog.jp/11591129/
July 12, 2012 at 3:55 am
Yes of I know a scientific name would be helpful, but being as it only somewhat recently discovered and was immediately introduced to the hobby here(mid-2011 to early 2012), there is no name as of yet, it will take some time. If I find something I shall update this thread. As for where it was collected, still working on that one also.
Ragn4rok and travis808- I really appreciate your kind words, means a lot and keeps me going!
July 12, 2012 at 6:17 am
I bought this plant as Micranthemum sp. New type Montecarlo-3. I think, maybe, it's not Micranthemum and Hemianthus. Interesting plant, grows well in the aquarium.
http://pokoujiaz.exblog.jp/11591129/
July 12, 2012 at 6:26 am
scientific name would be helpful, but being as it only somewhat recently discovered and was immediately introduced to the hobby here(mid-2011 to early 2012), there is no name as of yet, it will take some time.
July 13, 2012 at 11:38 am
It looks in the photo like Micranthemum umbrosum to me. Difference in larger leaves and more creeping growth?
The trade name "New type Montecarlo-3" (Vadim's post) may point to the origin. Perhaps imoprted from South America via Japan (Rayon Vert or so), and listed and described in any Japanese catalogue?
p.s. @Vadim: Now I've found Your link, sorry
July 16, 2012 at 2:23 pm
On tropicos.org there's a botanical record of Micranthemum umbrosum that possibly has been collected in the same location:
Argentina, Misiones, Montecarlo, H.A. Keller, 28/11/1999
http://www.tropicos.org/Specimen/2232924
Also Echinodorus uruguayensis is recorded in Argentina, Misiones, Montecarlo (the name of a river?): Renvoize 20/10/1978
http://www.tropicos.org/Specimen/3388363
But I can't find any information in daigorou11's blog (http://pokoujiaz.exblog.jp/11591129/) that the location "Montecarlo-3" where he found the Micranthemum "New type" and E. uruguayensis [Type horemanii] is actually in Argentina, Misiones.