Plant Question

Archangel

Archangel

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I bought a moneywort plant about a week ago. I placed it in my tank and spread the stalks around. As it was much taller than my tank, they kinda went straight up, then laid over just below the surface. Now that the plant has become established, where the tips were when the stalks where splayed out, it has started growing straight up, beyond the surface of the tank. Along the stalks, something that looks like roots are growing out of the stalks. I just noticed them yesterday, and they grew quite a bit overnight. The longest ones are about an inch and a half.

Is this an effort to spread by my plant, or what? I really don't know all that much about plants.
 
Moneywort is a 'stem' plant. You can grow it just about any way you want it to look.
If it's too tall, just snip off the tops about 3" from the top and replant those sections in the substrate.
When stem plants reach the surface and grow horizontally, they throw side shoots off more readily than when growing vertically in the tank. Many people let them grow that way to propagate more little plantlets and then replant them.
The roots you see are completely normal and natural for many stem plants.

Len
 
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