I have a plant I believe to be an Echinodorus, and I believe it was
sold as amazonicus. I always think I can remember what I buy, and
never can.

My new book, Aquarium Plants, by Christel Kasselmann, says the flower
bracts exceed the pedicels in length. in mine the bracts are about
7/16 inch long, the pedicels 1 and 1/4 inches long.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?

thanks


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- Charles
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I can't help you there but my E. amazonicus isent up a bloom stalk. It
split into three stems at the water surface. Several of the ends look
"burned" likely from the light heat up against the glass. Now I am
experimenting by leaving part of the glass cover open to see what happens.
One of the three branches is laying at the top of the water.

Got any pictures? I have a couple I can share but they don't show much yet.
Just green buds - no obviousl bloom/

Bob

P.S. MY sword fills up a little more than 1/2 my 55 gal tank.

"Charles" wrote in message
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I have a plant I believe to be an Echinodorus, and I believe it was
sold as amazonicus. I always think I can remember what I buy, and
never can.

My new book, Aquarium Plants, by Christel Kasselmann, says the flower
bracts exceed the pedicels in length. in mine the bracts are about
7/16 inch long, the pedicels 1 and 1/4 inches long.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?

thanks


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- Charles
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:05:45 GMT, "Bob Alston"
wrote:

I can't help you there but my E. amazonicus isent up a bloom stalk. It
split into three stems at the water surface. Several of the ends look
"burned" likely from the light heat up against the glass. Now I am
experimenting by leaving part of the glass cover open to see what happens.
One of the three branches is laying at the top of the water.

Got any pictures? I have a couple I can share but they don't show much yet.
Just green buds - no obviousl bloom/

Bob

Do you get alt.binaries.aquaria? I have some pictures I can shrink to
Internet size. No promise as to quality, tho.




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Bob Alston wrote ...
Now I am experimenting by leaving part of the glass cover open to see what
happens.

I can tell you what happens to mine - the air is too dry and the stalk
invariably becomes desiccated. I trim it off to keep the rest of the plant
more vigorous.

So you don't get a bloom? do you get any plant-lets?

Bob
"kush" wrote in message
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Bob Alston wrote ...
Now I am experimenting by leaving part of the glass cover open to see
what
happens.

I can tell you what happens to mine - the air is too dry and the stalk
invariably becomes desiccated. I trim it off to keep the rest of the
plant
more vigorous.

Just e-mail me the pictures direct.
thanks.

Bob
"Charles" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:05:45 GMT, "Bob Alston"
wrote:

I can't help you there but my E. amazonicus isent up a bloom stalk. It
split into three stems at the water surface. Several of the ends look
"burned" likely from the light heat up against the glass. Now I am
experimenting by leaving part of the glass cover open to see what
happens.
One of the three branches is laying at the top of the water.

Got any pictures? I have a couple I can share but they don't show much
yet.
Just green buds - no obviousl bloom/

Bob

Do you get alt.binaries.aquaria? I have some pictures I can shrink to
Internet size. No promise as to quality, tho.




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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:17:43 GMT, "Bob Alston"
wrote:




In the mail


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