Plant ID

[enrique4jc]

Can anyone tell me what this is?

 

[Kashta]

Alternanthera reineckii 'roseafolia.'

 

[KarlTh]

Yep. Hope your light's good or it tends to drop all its lower leaves and look like a red pine tree. Lovely plant though; one of my favourites; I must have spent £30 on it over the last couple of years until I finally got it to grow properly.

 

[bitbot]

Yep. Hope your light's good or it tends to drop all its lower leaves and look like a red pine tree.

Do you mean palm tree?

 

[KarlTh]

I did.

 

[bitbot]

Dang, I was gonna get me one o them red pine trees

 

[Kashta]

Dang, I was gonna get me one o them red pine trees

That would look great in a planted tank. Are they aquatic?

 

[bitbot]

That would look great in a planted tank. Are they aquatic?

Oh yeah, just be careful them little red coconuts don't hit the fish on the head!

 

[enrique4jc]

When I bought it the guy at the LFS said it was a hygro, but he wasn't sure which variety. Could it be a sunset hygro?

 

[enrique4jc]

Yep. Hope your light's good or it tends to drop all its lower leaves and look like a red pine tree. Lovely plant though; one of my favourites; I must have spent £30 on it over the last couple of years until I finally got it to grow properly.

I'm running 65 watts of light on a 29 gallon, so 2.24 wpg.