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Its Duckweed.
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To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
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Subject: Its Duckweed.
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From: Mick Nally <mick at roch-inst_co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:10:41 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604190739.DAA11971 at looney_actwin.com> from "Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com" at Apr 19, 96 03:39:03 am
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 08:29:00 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Wehde, Mark B. <MBW01 at msmail2_mayo.edu>
> To: owner-aquatic-plants <owner-aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
> Subject: what is this?
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> After planting my last order from Delaware Aquatics, I noticed about 100
> small ( about 1/8" ) green 4 leaf clover shaped leaves. They float on
> the top of the tank and have since ( 2 weeks ) put down about 1" roots.
> I think they were in the package with some hygrophylia polysperma
> "tropical sunset", but could of been with the bacopa or red ludwigia.
> Does anybody have any ideas what these are?
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> Thanks for any help
> Mark
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This sounds very much like Duckweed. It is a prolific floating plant which
will probably need thinning out regularly, it is usefull for extracting
nitrates from your water.
Mick