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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V4 #1093



> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:11:42 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Kyle10500 at webtv_net (Kyle)
> Subject: Re: Are trades popular
> 
>  They are with me. I received some awesome plants (Java 'Wendelov',
> Bolbitis, C. parva, 2 different chain swords and 3 Tiger lotus lily
> bulbs) for my 4 Echinodorus Parviflora offsets. This was at the old
> Plant Trader's board at Coolboard which has moved to Aimoo and appears
> to be dead in the water. So it appears it isn't as popular with most.
> 
> Related subject: I last requested a trade for some Hairgrass for E.
> parviflora and didn't get any takers. In the meantime I found an
> Eleocharis montevidensis and found no mention of it in the archives.
> Only sketchy technical descriptions on the web. Has anyone grown E.
> montevidensis? It is rather tall but I am not sure it is suitable for
> submersed cultivation. I have had it for a couple of weeks now and it is
> still mostly green but doesn't seem to be growing any.

Here's a link related to montevidensis:

http://plants.usda.gov/plants/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=ELMO2

Not much info out there on it.
 
> I would love to find E. vivipara or acicularis--or are they the same
> plant?

They are not the same plant. Acicularis is known as Dwarf Hairgrass,
vivpara as umbrella grass.


Nick

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