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Re: Marselia
Tom writes:
> The plants arrived with emersed form
> leaves only, about 6 to 8" tall with 4 leaf clovers on long skinny petioles
> (not very attractive) and thick, two inch root "plugs" which were easily
> planted
>
>
> This sounds similar to the Marsilea that I have, but I thought it was M.
> quadrifolia according to the description in rataj. The petioles were only
> about an inch or so tall and all the new leaves are a single lobe. How
does
> one tell which species these are? Whatever it is, it's a great plant! We
> have moderately hard water here and the LFS reports little success with
> glosso. E. tenellus is okay, but the round leaves of the marsilea are a
> welcome contrast.
The folks at http://www.shopsite.com/waterplants/index.html Are selling M.
quadrifolia and have a photo of a floating leafed plant which roots in shallow
tanks into the subsboil. I am going to order some in the next couple of days.
Bob Dixon