Name that floating aquatic plant.

[mark]

HI all, can someone name this plant so maybe I can research it. Its in my Hongkong tank, and is doing really well. It main plant has about a 4 inch tap/adventisious root system. Thanks.

 

[wyatt]

it looks like tropical water lettuce.

 

[josh]

i dont think its water lettuce. i used to have this plant...i totally forgot what it is...i was thinking frogbit...but frogbit has a heart shaped leaf

 

[edward]

Mike and Wyatt are correct it is water lettuce Pistia stratiotes

Ed

 

[mark]

Thanks, do you know if it flowers at all?

 

[josh]

i had a plant that looks very similar to that picture. it wasnt water lettuce. it did the same trailing growth with the pups but the leaves were flat and smooth on top and didnt get any bigger than an inch or inch and a half. the bottom surface of the leaf had small ges bubble chambers to allow floating. the growth wasnt from lack of light. i had it growing outdoors. does anybody know what this might be?? thats what i thought this was from the pic and its growth

 

[josh]

yep, thats it..i thought it was frogbit, but when i looked online to double check...i got something different. oh well

 

[mark]

Thats cool, will the water letuce flowers be noticible, when will it happen (about)?

 

[ammar]

<u>well it kinda looks like growing duck weed to me</u>

 

[joan]

Duckweed has 3 leaves, not 4.

 

[ammar]

o well its similer 2 duckwheed