Echinodorus Parviflorus - mother and daughter plants

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · Feb 24, 2014 (Edited)

I experience something interested on this plant. It produces baby in different way I've never seen.

Before I move on the next picture of the daughter plant, can someone make sure my plant is Echinodorus Opacus?
Sorry for the bad quality picture and algea...

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Looks a little different than the opacus types I've seen. Usually a darker green leaf with prominent lighter veining. Leave will be VERY stiff like plastic.

Yours looks very compact and the texture on the leaves look very unique. Nice plant! Is there a collection location for it? Where did you get it from?

Let's see some pics of the daughter plant.

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h4n

· #3 · Feb 24, 2014

wabisabi said:
Looks a little different than the opacus types I've seen. Usually a darker green leaf with prominent lighter veining. Leave will be VERY stiff like plastic.

Yours looks very compact and the texture on the leaves look very unique. Nice plant! Is there a collection location for it? Where did you get it from?

Let's see some pics of the daughter plant.

ya same here...
it does looks super nice either way.

lets see the daughter plant!!!

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #4 · Feb 25, 2014

Yes, the leaves is extremely hard. When I feel it, it's like fake plant and I thought I can damage it if I press it hard.
About 2 week ago, I saw a branch shot out and I thought it would be for blooming flower.

The shooting branch has nodes on the body in every 3in. As of today, here is the daughter plants come out from the top node...on top of the water

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jfynyson

· #5 · Feb 25, 2014 (Edited)

Very common for this family of plant to do this....enjoy and get ready to sell off the plantlets or ROAK them ! The parent plant has great texture so I'm sure that you could find good homes for them !

Congrats.

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wabisabi

· #6 · Feb 25, 2014

I don't think you have Echinodorus opacus. I think you have Echinodorus parviflorus.

See here: http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/details.php?id=40

http://www.tropica.com/en/plants/plantdescription.aspx?pid=071E

If you can tell us where you got the plant from, it would help determine as well.
I personally haven't seen an opacus type send out a flower stalk like that before, but doesn't mean it can't happen. The opacus I have propagate via runners under the substrate or plantlets from the main rhizome.

E. opacus looks like this

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h4n

· #7 · Feb 25, 2014

Ya I also agree with wabisabi,
I got some echino parviflorus and it looks exactly like yours junglefowl.

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #8 · Feb 25, 2014

@wabisabi, h4n: thanks for the infomation, I did some research on the Echinodorus parviflorus and now pretty sure my plant is the same one. Now I know what I got exactly. I got it last year from a local friend who moved to Chicago and can't take it with him. Don't really know where the plant came from.

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #9 · Feb 25, 2014

@jfynyson: you are right! I noticed yesterday, there's another daughter plants come out from another node. This one is underwater and has root. I love this plants since it stays short in my tank. My best pictures:

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #10 · Mar 20, 2014

A little update about the daughter plants.

They're getting bigger, the roots grow all the way down. I should be able to take them out.

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Mizuhuman

· #11 · Mar 20, 2014

Wow that's amazing. I love how it shoots out of the water like that.
Do you plan on selling them??

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #12 · Mar 20, 2014

Mizuhuman said:
Wow that's amazing. I love how it shoots out of the water like that.
Do you plan on selling them??

I have to change the name of the topic. I believe my plants is Echinodorus Parviflorus "Tropica" or dwarf. Mine is not the very expensive Opacus as I thought! Thanks wabisabi for the ID again!
But still...I love this plants and how it produce babies for me.
Let see how many daughter plants I will come up with before selling!

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HybridHerp

· #13 · Mar 21, 2014

Man, I still gotta get mine to make daughter plants, its been sitting there for a while as well *sigh*

I wish more people had this sword, its such a great plant.

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OVT

· #14 · Mar 21, 2014

I like that sword, very manageable. Mine never had stalks but one did split at the rhizome. The Amazons did the same for me.

Interesting how some plants have several ways to self-propagate and i wonder how they 'chose' which one to use.

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Mizuhuman

· #15 · Mar 21, 2014

junglefowl said:
I have to change the name of the topic. I believe my plants is Echinodorus Parviflorus "Tropica" or dwarf. Mine is not the very expensive Opacus as I thought! Thanks wabisabi for the ID again!
But still...I love this plants and how it produce babies for me.
Let see how many daughter plants I will come up with before selling!

I look forward to it. I have been hunting around for some nice swords, and this sword sparks my interest.

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johnson18

· #16 · Mar 21, 2014

Nice work!! I love the look of this species! These seem to be a difficult plant to find at the moment. I recently got one from a seller that was only a mere inch, maybe an inch and a half, didn't survive shipping. Finally decided I'd I would go through Aquarium Plants and they had sold out. haha. I too would be interested in a decent size daughter if you go that route!

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #17 · Apr 20, 2014

So I got total of 4 daughters plants still connect with the mother. I still don't want to propagate them and the best thing is they still grow very healthy like that

4 plants include this tiny baby one:

Look at the roots: nice and long

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junglefowl

Discussion Starter · #18 · Apr 20, 2014

And I want to sell 2 of the oldest sisters but don't know what is the good price to offer...

they look too good to let it away:

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johnson18

· #19 · Apr 20, 2014

I bought one recently that was a small daughter plant for $5, that showed up with 1" leaves & wasn't really a happy camper about it. I might be way off but I'd think between $5-$10 would be reasonable. Damn, if only I weren't moving cross country 3 weeks from today.

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HybridHerp

· #20 · Apr 20, 2014

johnson18 said:
I bought one recently that was a small daughter plant for $5, that showed up with 1" leaves & wasn't really a happy camper about it. I might be way off but I'd think between $5-$10 would be reasonable. Damn, if only I weren't moving cross country 3 weeks from today.

$5-$10 sounds very fair indeed.

Heck, I'd consider ordering one, since the one I have seems to not want to propagate *sigh*

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