'Tis the season--What have you got blooming?

Frog to fall you got an impressive variety of flowering types.

[gary1218]

Corey,

Feel free to use any of my pics. No problem.

[Frogtofall]

Originally Posted by Khamul1of9

Frog to fall you got an impressive variety of flowering types.

Thanks. You're one to talk! Look at all that stuff YOU got! :shock:

ops:

Got bored so decided to take some more pics of my Anubias in my 29 gallon viv. The second spike bloomed .

Here it is no flash

With flash






And here are some other plants I got in flower now,
Anthurium 'pink lady' Anyone know the species name to this?



And a surprise I got this morning in my little 5 gallon tank where I keep my Betta splendins.
This is the tank so you get an idea:

Here is the flower spiking from an Elodea! I've never seen one of these flower before.

[Frogtofall]

Very cool! Is it actually Elodea or is it Anacharis??

[KeroKero]

I do believe the Anthurium name is Anthurium andreanum going off the information on this web site tho the cultivars of that species often have the species name just left off, like its THE anthurium species (at least for cut flowers, the rest tend to be grown for foliage), no need to name, and everything else you give a species name to show its different or something...

Thanks Corey,

Frog to fall, it was sold as Elodea by a biological company. Is Anarchis the disputed genus name??

[KeroKero]

To quote one page:

"There is but one great all-round warm-water aquarium "anacharis" formerly of the genus "Elodea" now Egeria...

...the common name "anacharis" used to be a valid genus name for some of these plants; and is a moniker still often used. The correct scientific name for most species of "anacharis" is Elodea ("Ell-oh-dee-ah"). Egeria is another recent (1961) erected genus for a similar plant (the one of most interest to aquarists) that produces 2 to 4 flowers (Elodea only 1), that have large and deeply white petals (versus small and colorless), and are pollinated by insects (elodeas is done via water)."

A picture and the full article, with a pic of Elodea flowers, can be found here.

So basically, Elodea was the genus name for anacharis, but that has changed, and the biological supply company may be behind the times, or sending a cold water elodea species... but going by the pics its probibly just anacharis.

[Frogtofall]

From Botany class and even a bit of Zoology class, I remember this discussion. Elodea that we used (and that FEW stores actually carried) had much smaller foliage as a whole than Anacharis, even when grown in similar conditions. All the Anacharis I've ever bought or seen had larger foliage and had a much deeper green.

I've yet to sit down and compare flowers though.