Need help on plants identification.

[Ingen]

Saw the below photo online and need help to identify the plants especially those growing out of the water and possibly how to grow them that way.

[Urban Aquaria]

From what i can see, the ones with round leaves are a species of brazilian pennywort (very common in aquascaping), they can grow both submersed and emersed, so if they are able to grow tall enough to reach the water surface, they will continue to grow emersed above it.

The ones with long narrow leaves look like a species of hygrophilia, maybe hygrophila araguaia or angustifolia or lancea? Can't really see clearly so not really sure. Anyways its a stem plant and most stem plants can also grow both submersed and emersed too.

To achieve such emersed plant growth in aquariums, you'll just need the plants to grow to the surface and then above it. Some people create "riparium" style holders which allows the plants to be placed into containers already attached to the tank side near the water surface, in this way the plants will immediately be emersed and continue growing that way. You'll need ample light above the plants though, so it'll need to be hung up much higher than normal.

The rest of the plants grown submersed in the tank are the usual rotalas, cryptocorynes and maybe marsilea hirsuta for the carpet plant. I guess they are all plants that the Anubias brand distribute (since its their display) so the plant types should be in their catalogs.

[Ingen]

Thanks for the insights! You mean the same plant can both submersed and emersed? so it's possible for stem plants to break through the water surface and continue to grow while the rest of it are submersed?

[Urban Aquaria]

Thanks for the insights! You mean the same plant can both submersed and emersed? so it's possible for stem plants to break through the water surface and continue to grow while the rest of it are submersed?

Yeah, most of the popular stem plants we use in our planted tanks (ie. hygrophila, rotala, ludwigia, barcopa etc) typically grow in nature along river/pond edges and can grow both submersed and emersed forms on the same stem, like half in water half out of water. Quite often the leaves will also be different shape/texture/color between submersed and emersed too.