What are these growing off my plant??

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So I bought about a dozen of these aquarium plant seeds for $2.00 months ago. Of the 6 I planted, I got three really healthy plants out of it. Anyway, to make a long story short, the healthiest plant has started to grow these odd root-shaped things off the top of it. The plant has been growing nonstop (although it has slowed a bit).

Seen in the first picture is the "roots" at the tip of the plant.

I was advised by a colleague that they were root-like and that they would grow independant of the plant. so i cut a small piece off yesterday and planted it in the rocks (the second picture). the entire piece i cut off has these growing out of it -note the part circled in red that is above the surface of gravel-

I have a feeling this is a pretty common plant, so i hope this mystery is easily solved.

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what pictures?

sounds like aerials. roots to help it feed out of the water column.
 
okay. photos popped up after i posted--aerials.

strange page layout things happening. subsequent posts appear to be buried like "quotes" in initial post. odd.
 
Honestly, I think I'm just missing something in your pics, because it looks like that is some kind of bacopa doing what all plants like this seem to do in my tank. They grow up and then grow these massive bunches of roots out the side of the plant. The plants almost always just die after these roots seem to either steal nutrients, or just block light, I'm not sure.

I'd go with roots.
 
congealedmeat said:
Honestly, I think I'm just missing something in your pics, because it looks like that is some kind of bacopa doing what all plants like this seem to do in my tank. They grow up and then grow these massive bunches of roots out the side of the plant. The plants almost always just die after these roots seem to either steal nutrients, or just block light, I'm not sure.

I'd go with roots.
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i think it is roots as well.
will let you know how the planted piece works out. (picture 2).
 
I have these too!

wood said:
no one has any idea?
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I think they are roots. I have a plant that did this and here is what I tried. I cut the plant into thirds, right below each section with the weird growths and planted the sections. Instant plants. They are still alive after 3 weeks, still looking healthy. The only part that died was the original stem, which ended up with no leaves. I think it is the plants way of making babies.
 
Debisbooked said:
I think they are roots. I have a plant that did this and here is what I tried. I cut the plant into thirds, right below each section with the weird growths and planted the sections. Instant plants. They are still alive after 3 weeks, still looking healthy. The only part that died was the original stem, which ended up with no leaves. I think it is the plants way of making babies.
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They are definitely roots. Thats how stem plants reproduce. When the plant gets too tall, just cut it in half and plant the top part. I think the roots look ugly when they get very dense so occasionally I just pull them off and they dont grow back for a while. Carefully grab the roots at the base and gently pull them. If I dont do this to my wisteria, it creates an almost impenetrable wall of roots and my fish cant get through it.
 
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