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Re: Aponogeton ulvaceous



Paul writes:

> Are Aponogeton's seasonal plants?  Do they drop leaves and become dormant
>  at some point during the year? I thought that I read this somewhere. I
>  looked it up on Tropica's site but it did not mention this.  I have one
>  that is really beautiful, especially when the O2 bubbles form along its
>  "corkscrew" shaped leaves. I would like to get more but figured it might be
>  rude to find half the tank gone some morning. Are there any of the
>  available aquatic plants that die back seasonally?

If you allow it to send out several blooms, it will die back for a few months 
afterward.  It also seems to take more than one plant to get flowers to 
fertilize.

Bob Dixon