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so I just came back from spending the past 4 days in Florida with tom barr looking at aquatic plants in their native habitat we saw lots of common stuff. red ludwigia, eleocharis, sagittaria, val americana, riccia, proserpinaca, plus many others.
But there was one plant we found growing in a warm water swamp after of Florida that neither me nor tom has ever seen before. tom and I confirmed it is a true aquatic foreground plant because we did not find it growing any taller than 1/3" of an inch above the substrate and we also did not find it growing immersed anywhere along the sides of small stream. proving it to be true aquatic. it looks like it is related to Lilaeopsis however it hugs the substrate and does not grow upward like most Lilaeopsis. here are some pics:
me crouching over the stream I found it in (you can see it)
a closeup of the plant in my hand
i threw it in my tank and it seems to be doing okay maybe ill have some trimmings for sale in the near future. for now I call it Lilaeopsis sp. hernandez (my last name lol)
But there was one plant we found growing in a warm water swamp after of Florida that neither me nor tom has ever seen before. tom and I confirmed it is a true aquatic foreground plant because we did not find it growing any taller than 1/3" of an inch above the substrate and we also did not find it growing immersed anywhere along the sides of small stream. proving it to be true aquatic. it looks like it is related to Lilaeopsis however it hugs the substrate and does not grow upward like most Lilaeopsis. here are some pics:
me crouching over the stream I found it in (you can see it)

a closeup of the plant in my hand

i threw it in my tank and it seems to be doing okay maybe ill have some trimmings for sale in the near future. for now I call it Lilaeopsis sp. hernandez (my last name lol)