Identify this Plant

[davemonkey]

I'd love to go, just need a location.

kwc1974's house. Sent you a PM.

[Jozle]

I'd love to go, just need a location.

[davemonkey]

Jozle, we are having a meeting for HAAPS this week end. you care welcome to join us and bring a sample of it so we can take a closer look.

YES! (In fact, everyone is welcome to join us.) We'll be taking a look at Kevin's nursery/grow-out set-up.

[davemonkey]

Uniform chlorosis can be a beginning sign of either nitrate or iron defficiency. Coming from a pet store, there's no telling what, if any, nutrients were availble for the plant.

[kwc1974]

The leave being lighter could be a deficiency, but I tend to think it would be splotchy and not even with the color.

Jozle, we are having a meeting for HAAPS this week end. you care welcome to join us and bring a sample of it so we can take a closer look.

[Totenkampf]

would the lighter leaves possibly be a phosphorus deficiency? i thought it could be downoi, which is why i mentioned pogostemon, but the leaves on that look pretty stiff from the pics i have seen. it would be nice to see it growing in another tank under different conditions to see how it responds.

[davemonkey]

It almost looks like Staurogyne sp. 'Porto Velho' except for the wavy leaves and lack of color. But that could be nutritional. Then again, it also looks like Pogostomon helferi (Downoi) converting to submersed conditions. Give it a couple weeks and see if the leaves color up and straighten. Going by the stem and leave arrangement, I'm leaning toward the Staurogyne. (But I've been wrong before. )

[Jozle]

I believe it was growing at City Pets for a while because it had rooted into the substrate, I've had this plant for nearly two weeks now and it is still light green. I'm willing to part with a stem.

[kwc1974]

Davemonkey? kwc1974? Navarro? Complexity? any plant gurus reading this?

I'm here

At first glance it does look like Staurogyne 'Porto Vehlo' due to it's size and structure, maybe one that is having some nutritional issues as mentioned or maybe another variety of Staurogyne. How long have you had it? Would you be willing to part with a stem or two so it could be grown out under different conditions?

[wesleydnunder]

theres also a couple members of hygrophila and pogostemon that look similar

Looks like a deficient hygro. With enough light and nutrients it should darken for you.

Mark

[Totenkampf]

i know davemonkey has had s. 'porto vehlo' and i think also s. repens. he did mention that one had some undulation to it but i dont recall which.

[armthehomeless]

Davemonkey? kwc1974? Navarro? Complexity? any plant gurus reading this?

[Jozle]

Planted tanks think its Staurogyne 'Porto Vehlo' it looks nothing close, the leaves are more jagged on my plant.

[armthehomeless]

Re: Identify this Plant

Interesting... I have no clue, but I like it.

[allysangels]