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Re: Water Sprite
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To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com (Aquatic-Plants)
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Subject: Re: Water Sprite
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From: "David W. Webb" <dwebb at ti_com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:35:02 -0500
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Conversation-Id: <BMSMTP83824022727a0206807 at dsks52_itg.ti.com>
>From: Earle Hamilton <ehami at sunny_ncmc.cc.mi.us>
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>At any rate, the water sprite will in time grow right out the top and
>when I pull these monster plants to throw them away the plant is
>typically 24-30 tall with 8 inches of root.
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>Here's my question. After it is growing for several weeks some of the
>stems develop an area that looks like something is eating them.
^^^^^
Based on your description, I'd guess that this plant is Hygrophila difformis (Water Wisteria) rather than Water Sprite (a Fern). Water Sprite is a floating rosette plant and has no stems, only leaf petioles. Wisteria is a stem plant. Both plants have similarly-shaped leaves.
Do you have any snails or perhaps botia loaches that might be damaging the stems?
David W. Webb Enterprise Computing
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