Bucephalandra species

[Vasteq]

I don't think so. Emers Buce could look different (less beauty, have a harder and less coloured leaves. Maybe this is good way to quick multiplication, but to the detriment of the appearance)

[Tom Barr]

I have a lot of driftwood in each of my tanks, so I'll find some nice scape worthy spots for each.
I have roughly 8 varieties or species.

[Vasteq]

What exactly species you have? Do you know the names?

[Tom Barr]

I'll get the names at some point.

[Tom Barr]

Red vein 'West Kalimantan'
Malinau
Fine edge
Padawan
Sri Aman
Brownie purple

There's another, I'm not sure what it is.

Crypts also live in similar habitats and have very different leaves, I would suspect the same is true here. I know some people are going to sell and grow them due to their $$$, however........I am more interested in their scaping potential. I have used Crypts and Anubias well over the years, so anything new like this sparks my interest in texture and color, and ease of care.

If you have extra plants, please them to the USA, I'll gladly pay you for them.
Shipping is typically 4-5 days from most of the EU. I would suspect the plants if packed well, would make the trip.

Hint hint:-)

[Tom Barr]

This is a link to perhaps 20 videos of the habitat for this Genus:

http://natureye.com/bucephalandra/bu...p-sintang.html
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...l0l84l84l1l1l0

[DukeNJ]

Where did you find them Tom?

[Vasteq]

New species are still being finding. Some are similar to another (may have slightly different color, or size of leaf with the same shape: for example Velvet Leaf1 and 2), but many of them have a unique look. The vast majority are also multicolored. At the moment, I managed to gather 57 varieties. I try to collect the most interesting, medium and small size, (I don't like big type) without repeating appearance.

[Tom Barr]

Where did you find them Tom?

The videos or the plants??
Both on the web, hehe.

I got them from Manini on another forum, they are from Hawaii. There are a large no# of Asian people in HW and in CA and they travel back to the old country and often bring back different things, or know someone there that sends them plants etc.
We see many new things in the SF area and the West coast from Asia.

These species are not much different than Cyperus helferi and we have local populations of Cyperus growing in out seasonal streams here at the same height in and above the water as these plants. I do not call them aquatic really.
When the water is high, they are able to hang on, but they are only VERY RARELY naturally found growing in submersed conditions and that's likely because a rain recently raised the water level in the streams. That's what the Rheophyte term is for I suppose....seasonally flood tolerant and able to hang on.

Sword plants are similar if you want to apply this term to them.
However, swords have true heterophy, they have two different leaf mporphologies.
But like this species, they have large tough root systems to avoid being swept away, crypts also.
One of the main differences is the slower rates of growth for this genus vs Swords/Crypts, which are found in soft clays and lower down in the streams, sometimes permanently submersed for years........and the other main difference is these species grow on the rocks, and the roots anchor to those types of substrates.
In the video, you see many examples where they have the roots in the water, or....rain keeps the moss and rocks wet enough and the shade dark enough to avoid drying out and dessication. Rocks and moss are the only real substrates, there's ample water above and below the water line.

It's just a good niche that many plants would get washed away or buried by sediment if submersed too low.

They might adapt to CO2 rich submersed conditions.......in our tanks, but these are emergent plants growing along the sides of streams in general.
Are Orchids aquatic also? If Rheophyte is all that is required, then they should grow underwater also , no?

http://www.mendeley.com/research/ass...nsp-borneo-1/#

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2995644
the term is used in many papers:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl...+Bucephalandra

Sorry, Wiki is not good enough for me.

[Vasteq]

My english is not so good to understand all what you wrote. Firstly - buce don't need Co2 to grow. My first Buce I kept in aqua without Co2. But I start dosed to faster growing. I don't know that I good understand you, but could you call Bolbitis Heteroclita Difformis and Cuspidata as "not aquatic" plants, if it grow in nature on land, but can fast adapted to grow underwater?