plea for help to identify some plants

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard at aquaria_net>]

>
>I posted a plea for help to identify some plants on the 
>rec.aquaria.freshwater.plants ng, but didn't get much help there...can anyone 


Man, those newsgroups were a bad idea. Who invented them anyway?

>help me identify these plants?  Mystery Plant A reminds me of cabomba, but 
>the leaves look much finer
>than what I've seen before.  Mystery Plant B is some type of Apongeton; I
>bought the bulb from Wal-Mart but the packaging did not specify the type of
>Apongeton.  
>
>http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/mitoem/mitoem/whatsthis.htm

A is the Mriophyllum species sold as "Parrots feather". B is
a hybrid Aponogeton bulb; common in the aquarium trade.


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