Re: [APD] another water sprite variety

[Erik Olson <erik at thekrib_com>]

Sounds like pteroides!

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, REDRAGON40 at aol_com wrote:

> At the AGA convention a couple of years ago, I purchased a water  sprite that
> was very large leaved.  The individual leaves were about 4 to 5  inches long
> and three inches wide.  The base of each leaf was puffy and  spongy, not
> unlike some water lettuce leaves can be.  This was  definitely not submersible.  It
> was a floating rosette.  I had it in  an old established 10 gallon tank
> floating about 5 inches above the rich mulmy  substrate. Kasselman's book had said
> it liked floating in shallow water  over mud and was very difficult to grow as
> an aquarium plant.  I had the  tank mostly covered with glass to keep up the
> humidity.  It rewarded me  with incredibly fast emersed growth of dense
> branching antlerlike leaves,  filling the entire air space almost up to the glass.
> Then, for no  apparent reason, several months later, it Started to rot away
> and  eventually dissolved into mush.  I would love to try it again sometme,
> over mud, (if I ever see it for sale again).
>
> Carol   < ' )))><
>
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