crypt or fern??

[Auslicious]

On the weekend I purchased a plant that looks very much like cryptocoryne balansai but in the shop it was called "Queensland lace plant". Is there a lace fern of some description that looks like the crypt balansai??? It's not the healthy-est plant at the moment because I don't know what conditions it likes (bright/shade etc). Please help!

[benetay]

i suspect maybe what u got is this Aponogeton madagascariensis which is also called the lace plant. do they have net like leaf? if they do i suppose they are.

[geoffrey]

Why don't you use the aquatic plants database in Dennerle or Tropica website to help you identify your plant.

http://www.tropica.com/default.asp
http://www.dennerle.com/ENGLISCH/e_frameset.htm

[Simon]

Queensland lace plant = Aponogeton elongatus



it is oso listed under the 'edible plant list'

[Auslicious]

Thanks Simon Its hard when you are searching for something and you don't know its sci name.

[loupgarou]

hah. that means when you trim you can eat as salad..hah