Echinodorus that doesn't change leaf shape

[bjorn]

Majority of Echinodorus I've seen for sale have really nice tall stalks with heart shaped or round leafs. But once you grow them submerged for a while they seem to have much shorter stems/stalks and the leafs go much bigger and oval. So that it's mainly leaf and little else.

Are this typical for all Echinodorus? I'm looking for one that stays pretty much the same in submerged form. I like the way the emerged form creates a platform like structure.

 

[Alastair]

I had an echinodorous cordifolias/radicans that grew two foot thick stems with leaves that didn't grow too big. Always grew to the surface. Sounds like what your after. Also, I currently have an echinodorous uraguansis chich is almost all leaf but thin and hits the surface easily

 

[ghostsword]

I have both I those, and the leaves are as described. The radicans is a monster of a plant, but all leaves are on top, perfect!


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[bjorn]

Is it possible to keep them lower (below surface) by trimming the larger leafs regularly?

I wonder if Radicans are the same as the "echinodorus parviflorus" that AquaFleur produces. Their names never seem to match anyone elses.

 

[Alastair]

The radicals I had most of the leaves stayed just below the surface and one or two grew out. Not sure if that helps. I don't know about the parvifloras, seems shorter on google images

 

[ghostsword]

My plant has two sets of leaves. Oval ones above water, and really broad ones under. 🙂

 

[Alastair]

I've just had a quick nosey on the Internet and an echinodorous cordifolias ssp flutians stays just under the surface. There's one going on eBay for 5.99

 

[bjorn]

I've just had a quick nosey on the Internet and an echinodorous cordifolias ssp flutians stays just under the surface. There's one going on eBay for 5.99

Yeah it's the one with the wrong leaf shape. All of the ones I've tried start off with a great leaf shape but then transform into bigger, wider oval leafs with shorter stalks. I'd just like them to stay the way they are when I buy them but they all seem to change when growing submersed.

 

[Alastair]

do they ever stop!!