Identify Plant

Joergen.Schoppe

Joergen.Schoppe

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Jan 13, 2007
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Can anyone indentfy this plants for me? They have a about 4 to 6cm tuber. Very much like a Barclaya longifolia.
The colour of new leaves are in a lovely red, but when they get older they turn green.

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My initial thought was Anubia frazeri but the stripes on the leaves are making me think otherwise... It also looks like it might be planted a little deep if it has a rhizome.

Also your tank looks immaculate from what I can see!
 
I'm gonna second the E. "rubin" guess. :)
 
I'll third it

(as soon as I saw that i knew it made more sense than the anubia, although the remark about the tuber has me scratching my head)
 
Thanks for the remarks, but Ech as no tuber, and this one has.
I have also seen the same plant in light green on the market. But talking to the dealers is useless, they don't speak english...
Thanks for the comment on the immaculate tank.
 
Definitely looks like a red rubin to me... are you sure you might be confusing the root with a tuber? Mine have produce some very thick root trunk that has been a couple inches long between the crown and the roots before... I even planted a 2-3" long chunk of this root horizontally before and it started sprouting plants at each end. take a pic of this tuber... and whether its a tuber or not they look planted too deeply.
 
I looked up the Ech rubin in Aquarium Plants (Christel Kasselmann), agree now, looks very, very simillar.
But what about the tuber? See the picture. The thick part is hard like wood. It was bigger when I purchased the plants.
I had this plant for about 3 month, two weeks ago I moved the whole tank (moved to another apartement), cut the roots, etc.

If this is a Ech, I will have to put it in the back, now! But I actually did throw all my Ech away, the roots... 6 big Ech = 3Kg roots... The whole lenght of my 1.5m tank was covered, was like a root carpet under the gravel. Impossible to take out without a total removal of the gravel. And obviously impossible to move. Except if one wants rotting roots...

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looks just like my e rubins.
 
If it had a tuber the new roots would be growing out of it. I expect it is the way it was grown with the roots confined in a hard clay or something. To remove large rooted plants I pull them up a little then just cut around the crown, the rotting roots get eaten by the other plants. Its an echinodorus for sure.
 
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