my anubius is about to open its flower, is anubinus nana a marsh plant? or does pollen get from one anubius to the other by bumble bee gobies?
what good is a flower under water?
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Ah, you're funny. Seriously. Too bad there aren't enough aquarists out there for you to go on tour.
hehe, bumble bee goobies
anubias and java fern are both marsh plants that don't "know" when they are submerged. So you will get flowers or spores developing as if they were out of the water.
anubias and java fern are both marsh plants that don't "know" when they are submerged. So you will get flowers or spores developing as if they were out of the water.
perhaps thats why java fern is always crappy lookin? I think in the wild they are clung to rocks getting splashed by waterfalls al misty and stuff you know?
java fern are a full submerged plant, anubias is as well. The flower stalk should keep growing until it's above water. Like alot of submerged plants it repruduces through a flower that grows above the surface of the water from a tuber. Just like lilypads, aponos, echidnodorus..
Anubias are not submerse plants, they are emerse other than briefly during flood. Check out that nice waxy cuticle - submerse plants do have such. They also grow much faster emerse. The flower stalk do not keep elongating - this is not a sword plant or Aponogeton.
I have not checked personally on Java Fern, but it is my understanding that they also are emerse plants in the wild.
I have not checked personally on Java Fern, but it is my understanding that they also are emerse plants in the wild.
i hear they grow on and araound waterfalls tho, i could see them clinging to the wet rocks gets splashed, thats why they can affix themselves with those roots unlike anacharis that would float aaway like a dead neon
Anubias has far more and better roots than Java Fern, and they hold quite well in substrates or on rocks or wood. Java fern has only holdfasts, no absorbtive roots. Is there a lack of experience showing here?
um. when did i say java fern has better roots than anubius or that it can old on better, or that it has absorbiant roots? your nuts man seriously leave my posts alone
RTR said:
REALLY!?
but my anubias flower stalk has always grown until it was out of the water, then it flowers. I never knew anubias, and java fern were emerse plants.
Tone it down Hans, anybody is free to reply to any topic they want too.